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Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Rökman
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. KäPa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at KäPa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Niklas Leinonen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Cukici, and the manager let it.
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Squad26 Oct 2026
Alexander Milošević falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at KäPa
Aito Pitkänen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
KäPa are still strangers to each other
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sebastian Savini is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at KäPa
Theodor Johansson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at KäPa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexander Milošević was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KäPa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexander Milošević and KäPa agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at KäPa
Theodor Johansson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at KäPa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexander Milošević is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Reko Huhtamäki damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KäPa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Niklas Leinonen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Reko Huhtamäki
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. KäPa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at KäPa
Niklas Leinonen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Denis Cukici gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. KäPa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at KäPa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johannes Pentti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A welcome sight on the training pitch: Johannes Pentti has come through recovery and is pushing for a place again.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Reko Huhtamäki damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at KäPa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johannes Pentti is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at KäPa
Aito Pitkänen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at KäPa
Theodor Johansson and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Niklas Leinonen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 new faces, and KäPa are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KäPa
Theodor Johansson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The window shuts on the Liam Möller deal
KäPa ran out of time with HJK. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at KäPa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johannes Pentti was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Cukici, and the manager let it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at KäPa, another week without a signature from Theodor Johansson.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Juho Karjalainen and KäPa agree another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Theodor Johansson is on it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The formation has left Olavi Keturi behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. KäPa will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market24 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Ledion Beqiri arrives from TPS with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
KäPa bow out of the cup
PK-35 go through and KäPa go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad17 Aug 2026
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 2 out at KäPa
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Liam Möller
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. KäPa have done the hard part with HJK, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KäPa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
KäPa offered $130.0K; HJK said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
KäPa spend $47.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $47.0K for Johannes Pentti, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Niklas Leinonen falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
KäPa and AC Oulu have settled on $47.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $189.6K — a club that wants Julius Tauriainen enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KäPa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joel Soiri has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matti Granlund has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Paulus Hoskonen has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mikael Granlund is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match8 Aug 2026
Late, late show earns KäPa a point
Minute 90, against JäPS, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Samba Sillah and KäPa agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$120.0K on the table at Inter Turku. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
KäPa asked and IF Gnistan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KäPa
Niklas Leinonen was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at KäPa has picked up the phone to Samba Sillah
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and KäPa are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Rasmus Karjalainen to a room that had heard them before.