The Piast Post
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Piast
Jorge Félix and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Piast
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and German Barkovskiy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Filip Borowski gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Filip Borowski is on it.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Jakub Lewicki faces his old club
Jagiellonia next, and one man in the Piast dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Vladislav Krasovskiy knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Piast, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A door opens for Ivan Lima
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A wage question at Piast
Jason Lokilo has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Market16 Nov 2026
The shop window has Patryk Starobrat in it
Piast have let the market know Patryk Starobrat can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Hugo Vallejo question follows Piast around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Hugo Vallejo’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Loan watch Marcel Mendes-Dudziński has made Chindia Târgoviște’s shirt his own
- Looking ahead Piast travel to Jagiellonia
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Grzegorz Tomasiewicz