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The KuPS Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Petteri Pennanen 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 KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Calvin Kabuye

“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 ratings17 Aug 2026

One of those days for Oscar Sjöstrand

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.45, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad17 Aug 2026

This league is too small for Félix Uculmana

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. KuPS will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Match15 Aug 2026

Honours even between KuPS and HIFK

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market17 Aug 2026

Experience through the door at KuPS

Félix Uculmana arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market17 Aug 2026

The Kasim Adams question follows KuPS around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kasim Adams’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Erik Midtgarden knocks on the manager’s door

“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.

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The KuPS Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Calvin Kabuye

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market10 Aug 2026

KuPS say no — this time

The offer from HIFK for Arttu Lötjönen was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Johannes Kreidl stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Johannes Kreidl and KuPS agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Petteri Pennanen 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 KuPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match8 Aug 2026

KuPS come up short against Ilves

Ilves left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

One of those days for Otto Ruoppi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.61, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad10 Aug 2026

This league is too small for Srđan Grabež

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. KuPS will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market10 Aug 2026

36 months and counting on Jaime Moreno

Still no offer on the table, and Jaime Moreno’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Jaime Moreno keeps on missing

Shots: 13, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

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The KuPS Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market3 Aug 2026

KuPS say no — this time

The offer from Valerenga for Jaime Moreno was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Jaime Moreno signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jaime Moreno and KuPS agree another 3 years.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Gustav Engvall

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at KuPS

Petteri Pennanen 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Johannes Kreidl

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Johannes Kreidl, and the manager let it.

Market3 Aug 2026

Arttu Lötjönen attracts admirers

The name of Arttu Lötjönen has come up in conversations KuPS were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Jaime Moreno

Marked 8.42 — 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

The clock runs on Gustav Engvall's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Match1 Aug 2026

KuPS and VPS take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief