Marked for Luis Solignac
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match13 Dec 2027
Ruch are in real trouble now
Position 15, 12 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market13 Dec 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Ruch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad13 Dec 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match11 Dec 2027
8 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Market13 Dec 2027
Szymon Bębenek has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ruch they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Dec 2027
“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.
Match11 Dec 2027
A bad afternoon for Ruch against Lech
0‑2 to Lech, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad13 Dec 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Jakub Bielecki knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
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Uneasy
Market1 Nov 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Ruch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Defensive actions: 32, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Ruch
Radosław Murawski 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 ratings1 Nov 2027
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Denis Ventúra
“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.
Match30 Oct 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Wisla Krakow defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad1 Nov 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Ruch would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“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.
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Crisis
Match2 Oct 2027
The wait goes on for Ruch
23 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.
Market4 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ruch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luis Solignac and Ruch agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Ruch
Radosław Murawski 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 ratings4 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match2 Oct 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“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.
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Crisis
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
17 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Match18 Aug 2027
Ruch bow out of the cup
Cracovia go through and Ruch go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Luis Solignac, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Ruch
Radosław Murawski 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 ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match21 Aug 2027
Vladimir Nikolov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Pogon, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Uneasy
Match31 Jul 2027
The wait goes on for Ruch
13 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Aug 2027
47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.76, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad2 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Patryk Szwedzik
“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.
Market2 Aug 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ruch, another week without a signature from Radosław Murawski.
Squad2 Aug 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Jakub Bielecki knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match31 Jul 2027
It needed Marko Kolar to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Jagiellonia, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market2 Aug 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Patryk Szwedzik may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Match24 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Market26 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market26 Jul 2027
The shirt still fits. Rafal Klich is back at Ruch, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market26 Jul 2027
As if he never left: Rafal Klich returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Rafal Klich is a Ruch player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market26 Jul 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Luis Solignac
“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.
Match24 Jul 2027
Piast take the points off Ruch
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match12 Apr 2027
Ruch sink to position 13
23 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Ruch
Radosław Murawski 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The medical room confirms 48 days on the sidelines for Danylo Lapka, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Uneasy
Market8 Mar 2027
Juan Casarini 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 Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luis Solignac and Ruch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Patryk Sikora
“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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Crisis
Match23 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad25 Jan 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market25 Jan 2027
Ruch get their man
The chase for Miłosz Kurowski ended with $140.0K changing hands and Slask out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“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.
Match23 Jan 2027
0‑1 to Gornik Zabrze, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
87% of the income goes out in wages at Ruch
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.
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Uneasy
Match18 Jan 2027
Ruch sink to position 13
22 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match16 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Ruch
8 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Germán Gutiérrez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ruch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market18 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
85 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market18 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done: Radosław Murawski joins from Lech in a deal worth $480.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.77 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Crisis
Match9 Jan 2027
7 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market11 Jan 2027
Ruch get their man
The chase for Gracjan Korytkowski ended with $140.0K changing hands and Slask out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Szymon Bębenek has come up in conversations Ruch were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match9 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Ruch against Cracovia
0‑1 to Cracovia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Anderson Prestes commits to Ruch for another 3 years.
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Crisis
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Match2 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Orlando Osorio
“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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Ruch pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Max Watson 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 Max Watson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Crisis
Market28 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match26 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 186% of everything Ruch 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Dec 2026
Lechia take the points off Ruch
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Nicolás Millán will call it something else in private.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohamed Mezghrani, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match21 Dec 2026
Ruch sink to position 13
21 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 119 days on the sidelines for Marko Kolar, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Ruch
4 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.
Squad21 Dec 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“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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Crisis
Market14 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Shuma Nagamatsu: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ruch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ruch come up short against Lech
Lech left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Szymon Szymański
3 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
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Crisis
Market7 Dec 2026
Juan Casarini 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 Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad7 Dec 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
Ruch come up short against Pogon
Pogon left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Daniel Szczepan, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market30 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
241% of the income goes out in wages at Ruch
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 ratings30 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.91, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“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 ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings30 Nov 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Ruch and Zaglebie 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
148 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad23 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Nov 2026
Three points for Ruch, 1‑0 the final word against Korona in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 8.39 — 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Adrián Calello
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Ruch lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market23 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Dominik Preisler signs something — a contract at Ruch or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Max Watson, and the manager let it.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑1 to Jagiellonia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A mark of 5.77 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Crisis
Squad9 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Ruch against Piast
0‑2 to Piast, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Nov 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.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
241% of the income goes out in wages at Ruch
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Konczkowski, and the manager let it.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Wisla Krakow, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Steady
Squad26 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Adrián Calello
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Nicolás Millán asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
There were 11 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Ruch
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings19 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ruch get the job done against Legia
A 1‑0 win over Legia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrej Lukić, and the manager let it.
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Player ratings
Marko Kolar runs at them all day
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Boardroom
Ruch were not finished after all
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Steady
Match10 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Ruch do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Ventúra, and the manager let it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 7.78 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ruch had the best player on the pitch.
Match10 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Gornik Zabrze came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Defensive actions: 12, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Ruch do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for Ruch, 2‑1 the final word against Gornik Leczna in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 9.03 — 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
426% of the income goes out in wages at Ruch
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 ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Orlando Osorio
“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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Uneasy
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 32 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad28 Sep 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match26 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Ruch do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dominik Preisler, and the manager let it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.74, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Cracovia will be the happier side with the point.
Market28 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Dominik Preisler signs something — a contract at Ruch or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.57 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.77 — 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.
Squad21 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Podbeskidzie, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Nikodem Proczek, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.59 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ruch had the best player on the pitch.
Match12 Sep 2026
No goals between Ruch and Lechia
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Lechia will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 6, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Every debut is a small story about the future: Mateusz Rosół, 18 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
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Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Luis Solignac 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
286% of the income goes out in wages at Ruch
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Konczkowski, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
Honours even between Ruch and Slask
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Ruch bow out of the cup
Cracovia go through and Ruch go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 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 Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Jakub Bielecki knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A defender's afternoon for Max Watson
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Dominik Preisler 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Zaglebie left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicolás Millán
“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
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Ruch needed to.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ruch bring in an old head
Germán Gutiérrez is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Denis Ventúra 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 Denis Ventúra trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Ruch would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.