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Steady
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Promotion for TPS
Mathematically certain, and nobody in this town is going to bed early. Whatever else happened this season, it finishes a division above where it started.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Atte Sihvonen breaks a bone — 102 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad2 Nov 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 TPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Tatu Varmanen
“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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Luke Ivanovic has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Market2 Nov 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
87% of the income goes out in wages at TPS
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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jacob Barrett Laursen has written the date down.
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Boardroom26 Oct 2026
TPS lift the trophy
The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Atte Sihvonen out for 110 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason TPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Pau Juvanteny 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I watch every TPS game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at KäPa runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Lasse Ikonen is still paying for one afternoon at TPS
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jacob Barrett Laursen has written the date down.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Charlemagne Azongnitodé trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at TPS would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
118 days out for Atte Sihvonen after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. TPS will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at TPS
Albijon Muzaci 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
Pau Juvanteny 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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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Atte Sihvonen out for 125 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason TPS will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
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 TPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at TPS
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Ivanovic was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at TPS, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Rasmus Harjanne
“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.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
132 days out for Atte Sihvonen after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. TPS will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and TPS know it.
Squad5 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 TPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 110% of everything TPS earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Miika Kauppila has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at TPS will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at TPS
Luke Ivanovic 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tomi Väkiparta is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Pau Juvanteny 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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at TPS, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Market28 Sep 2026
Atle Wahlund is 18, and TPS have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Atle Wahlund and TPS agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Lasse Ikonen is still paying for one afternoon at TPS
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at TPS
Albijon Muzaci 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at TPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Ivanovic 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.
Market21 Sep 2026
The name of Tatu Varmanen keeps appearing in other people's back pages. TPS say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at TPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Ivanovic 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.
Market14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
TPS are still strangers to each other
10 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at TPS, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout14 Sep 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 TPS, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Oscar Häggström has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at TPS will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Emmanuel Boateng has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means TPS have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at TPS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Atte Sihvonen 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
The young player of the month award goes to a 20-year-old at TPS who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at TPS
Aly Coulibaly and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Albijon Muzaci named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Albijon Muzaci is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 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 TPS, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put TPS out
Out, 1‑3 to IF Gnistan, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at TPS
Albijon Muzaci 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
KuPS will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Joslyn Luyeye-Lutumba has pre-agreed a move to TPS, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Luke Ivanovic 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.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikolas Talo, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Lasse Ikonen's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Elmo Henriksson: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Oscar Häggström obliged against PK-35. 3‑3 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is TPS.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for TPS — 7.27
1 for Oscar Häggström, marked 7.27, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at TPS
Albijon Muzaci 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at TPS
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Ivanovic was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. TPS will try again when the window opens; FC Lahti may not be selling by then.
The terraces24 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.
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Upbeat
Market17 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” KTP had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 1 out at TPS
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The deal with AC Oulu is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$250.0K on the table at FC Lahti. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at TPS
Luke Ivanovic and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
AC Oulu wanted more than $44.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Haka will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Valentin Purosalo has pre-agreed a move to TPS, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at TPS
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pau Juvanteny was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Marked 7.64 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $45.0K — a club that wants Johannes Pentti enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
TPS have gone to AC Oulu with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at TPS
Albijon Muzaci 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
VPS will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Jonathan Muzinga has pre-agreed a move to TPS, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at TPS
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luke Ivanovic was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Joel Kamara joins the TPS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Joel Kamara is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Teemu Raitala joins the TPS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Teemu Raitala is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Thodoros Tsirigotis wins it after the whistle should have gone
91 minutes played. Thodoros Tsirigotis found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and FC Lahti went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luke Ivanovic and TPS agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 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 TPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bari have kept their man, and TPS go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
FC Lahti made TPS work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
At 23 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Niklas Harju has come up in conversations TPS were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Atte Sihvonen 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.
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.