From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Mustapha Coker
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mustapha Coker will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around KTP the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at KTP
Roland Paku 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Foday Manneh, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for KTP
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around KTP are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 85 days on the sidelines for Ola Kamara, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at KTP
Atomu Tanaka 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
197% of the income goes out in wages at KTP
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nathaniel Tahmbi, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Samuli Hölttä hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KTP can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for KTP
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Atomu Tanaka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KTP this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Erik Midtgarden
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.62, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Andrii Lipovuz knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KTP, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at KTP is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to KTP's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KTP has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KTP
Atomu Tanaka 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexander Milošević, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.72, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KTP, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Match22 Aug 2026
KTP and VPS cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. VPS came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at KTP has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
KTP out of the cup
SJK ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market17 Aug 2026
Mustapha Coker has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around KTP they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Atomu Tanaka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KTP this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Petteri Forsell
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Maksym Zhuk knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Erik Midtgarden trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Petteri Forsell’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A mark of 5.61 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 28 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad10 Aug 2026
114 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Atomu Tanaka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at KTP this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joni Mäkelä 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. KTP know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
In brief
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Market
KTP bring in an old head
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Market
Experience through the door at KTP
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KTP and HJK cancel each other out
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Samuli Hölttä hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what KTP can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Atomu Tanaka and KTP agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at KTP
Atomu Tanaka 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Gift Sunday’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KTP.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.96 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maksym Zhuk, and the manager let it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.33 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.