About Valakari.
He has done some good job with his club SJK and previosly with youth teams in Helsinki. A very talented but still quite unexperienced manager. He has done well with SJK but the club was only founded in 2007, so it's not really a miraculous achievement if you are the most succesfull manager in the history of the club....SJK has always had a bid budget in Finnish standards and getting promotion to Veikkausliiga was the least they expected from Valakari. This season has been a bit weird in Finland since HJK which should be the number one team in Finland has been the worst team in the league after July, and thanks to that SJK have a good chance in securing their first league title. Then again SJK do have the second biggest budget in the league.
Still so far Simo's managerial career has been a big success. Can't be worse than Mixu.