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45 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

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Fabián Sánchez 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 Piast can pretend not to have heard.

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Only the photograph left for Wiktor Kamiński

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Wiktor Kamiński will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Piast the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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Jagiellonia may not be able to give Sergio Lozano what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Sergio Lozano wants continental football; whether Jagiellonia can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

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44 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

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Sergio Lozano tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 2 goals in 2 appearances for Jagiellonia.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Legia

Jan Bienduga was marked 6.00 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Mariusz Stępiński puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Korona, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Jakub Myszor has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gornik Leczna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

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Alejo Cruz’s move to Slask falls through

The deal that would have taken Alejo Cruz to Slask has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Legia with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

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Nobody made more than František Plach this month

2 assists, 6.47, and a Ruch player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Cracovia come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Lech did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Piast man

Dominik Holec averaged 8.90 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Gerónimo Tomasetti keeps the pressure on

2 goals in 2 appearances for Wisla Krakow leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Still scoring: Marko Božić

2 in 2 for Wisla Krakow. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Timotej Jambor up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Slask — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Jakub Pira makes the list

2 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

43 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

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Terry Yegbe tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Lech.

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The month belonged to Terry Yegbe

Marked 8.50 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Lech have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Cracovia

Kevin Courtois was marked 6.67 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Juan Alano 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 Korona can pretend not to have heard.

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Legia turn down Slask for Alejo Cruz

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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Nobody made more than Allahyar Sayyadmanesh this month

6 assists, 8.61, and a Lech player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Lech man

Allahyar Sayyadmanesh averaged 8.61 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Only the photograph left for Slobodan Rubežić

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Slobodan Rubežić will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Korona the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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Sergio Lozano wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Jagiellonia hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

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Still scoring: Pablo Rodríguez

3 in 4 for Lech. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

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Mihael Mlinarić is right behind him

3 goals in 4 appearances for Zaglebie, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Beno Selan up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Cracovia — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

42 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Pablo Rodríguez

The month closes with Pablo Rodríguez out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Lech have the division's most feared finisher.

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The month belonged to Pablo Rodríguez

Marked 8.63 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Lech have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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Jarosław Czerwik is the month's best young player — 6.88

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.88 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Podbeskidzie player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

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Kacper Urbański 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 Gornik Zabrze can pretend not to have heard.

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Pedro López leads the division for assists — 7.13

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Jagiellonia player marked 7.13, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Jorge Félix has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Piast they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Lech man

Pablo Rodríguez averaged 8.63 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Allahyar Sayyadmanesh wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Lech hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

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Peter Federico wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

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Akor Adams up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Legia — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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José Pozo keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 4 appearances for Pogon leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Sebastian Kowalczyk keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 4 appearances for Zaglebie leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

41 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Allahyar Sayyadmanesh

The month closes with Allahyar Sayyadmanesh out in front — 7 goals in 3 games, and Lech have the division's most feared finisher.

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The month belonged to Allahyar Sayyadmanesh

Marked 9.02 across it, 7 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Lech have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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Bruno Durdov is the month's best young player — 7.74

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.74 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Wisla Krakow player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

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Nathan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gornik Zabrze, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Lirim Qamili is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ruch is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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Michał Rakoczy leads the division for assists — 8.52

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Gornik Zabrze player marked 8.52, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Lech man

Allahyar Sayyadmanesh averaged 9.02 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Peter Federico wants more than Legia are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

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Marcos Acuña wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

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Adrián Dalmau makes the list

3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Amin Younes up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Gornik Zabrze — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Still scoring: Peter Federico

3 in 4 for Legia. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

40 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

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Adrián Dalmau tops the scoring charts

Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 3 appearances for Piast.

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Pablo Rodríguez is the division's player of the month — 7.89

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Lech man on 7.89 with 4 goal contributions.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Jagiellonia

Jakub Pira was marked 7.12 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Mariusz Stępiński 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 Korona can pretend not to have heard.

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Nobody made more than Tomasz Loska this month

4 assists, 6.99, and a Gornik Zabrze player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Thiago Cattanese has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gornik Leczna they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

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Highest marks in the league belong to a Cracovia man

Beno Selan averaged 8.32 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.

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Pablo Rodríguez wants more than Lech are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

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Cristian Barrios wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

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Allahyar Sayyadmanesh makes the list

3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Vahan Bichakhchyan makes the list

2 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Still scoring: Pablo Rodríguez

3 in 4 for Lech. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

39 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Peter Federico

The month closes with Peter Federico out in front — 4 goals in 5 games, and Legia have the division's most feared finisher.

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Peter Federico is the division's player of the month — 8.14

A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Legia man on 8.14 with 7 goal contributions.

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Bruno Durdov is the month's best young player — 7.11

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.11 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Wisla Krakow player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

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Juan Alano asks to leave Korona

“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.

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Nobody made more than Domen Gril this month

4 assists, 6.40, and a Legia player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Loïc Masscho is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lechia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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Peter Federico is the division's best-marked player — 8.14

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.14 across 5 matches for Legia.

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The Piast deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Michał Litwa reports back to Gornik Leczna with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

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Sergio Lozano wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

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Akor Adams makes the list

4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Sergio Lozano makes the list

5 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

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Still scoring: Michalis Kosidis

4 in 5 for Zaglebie. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.

38 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Michalis Kosidis

The month closes with Michalis Kosidis out in front — 4 goals in 3 games, and Zaglebie have the division's most feared finisher.

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The month belonged to Mihael Mlinarić

Marked 8.42 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Zaglebie have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.

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Jakub Pira is the month's best young player — 7.26

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.26 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Jagiellonia player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

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Gabriel Charpentier 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 Legia can pretend not to have heard.

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Valentin Cojocaru leads the division for assists — 6.92

The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a Pogon player marked 6.92, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.

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Only the photograph left for Tomasz Neugebauer

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tomasz Neugebauer will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lechia the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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So close: Gabriel Charpentier’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Kashiwa Reysol moved on, Gabriel Charpentier reports back to Legia, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

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Jagiellonia turn down Huesca for Daniel Szczepan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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Mihael Mlinarić is the division's best-marked player — 8.42

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.42 across 3 matches for Zaglebie.

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Lirim Qamili up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Ruch — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Federico Bonazzoli keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 3 appearances for Lech leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Leandro Sanca makes the list

4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.

37 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Tamar Svetlin

The month closes with Tamar Svetlin out in front — 4 goals in 2 games, and Korona have the division's most feared finisher.

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Jakub Pira is the month's best young player — 8.04

The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.04 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Jagiellonia player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.

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Fabián Sánchez asks to leave Piast

“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.

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Only the photograph left for Lirim Qamili

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lirim Qamili will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ruch the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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Legia turn down OFI for Gabriel Charpentier

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

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Nobody made more than Yusuke Matsuo this month

4 assists, 8.48, and a Korona player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.

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Tamar Svetlin is the division's best-marked player — 9.36

The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 9.36 across 2 matches for Korona.

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Peter Federico wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Legia hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

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Vladimir Nikolov up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Korona — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Lirim Qamili is right behind him

3 goals in 2 appearances for Ruch, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.

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Beno Selan up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Cracovia — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Jakub Pira up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Jagiellonia — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

36 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

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Kacper Urbański asks to leave Gornik Zabrze

“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.

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Lech come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Cracovia did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

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Leonel Álvarez is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Korona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

35 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

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Lirim Qamili puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ruch, and it is not being withdrawn.

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Adam Deja is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gornik Leczna is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

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Allahyar Sayyadmanesh wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Lech hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

34 Edition

The Ekstraklasa Herald

1 May 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

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Branislav Pindroch 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 Gornik Leczna can pretend not to have heard.

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Only the photograph left for Bartosz Śpiączka

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bartosz Śpiączka will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gornik Leczna the goodbyes have quietly begun.

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Pablo Rodríguez wants more than Lech are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.