Ramil Mustafaev

Right Back - Cracovia
1 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Ramil Mustafaev

7 Edition

The Cracovia Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Murillo

93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cracovia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Mateusz Klich 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ajdin Hasić

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

4 matches without a win for Cracovia

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Cracovia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Dominik Baumgartner in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Cracovia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Pau Sans 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.

Match

Cracovia and Gornik Zabrze cancel each other out

Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Gornik Zabrze came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.

Market

Cracovia put Patryk Nowakowski up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Patryk Nowakowski may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market

The market said no: Ramil Mustafaev stays put

Cracovia opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Ramil Mustafaev stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Cracovia Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Beno Selan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Cracovia through in the cup

A 3‑2 win over Ruch, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Mateusz Praszelik drives the Cracovia comeback

2 behind and going nowhere, until Mateusz Praszelik decided otherwise. Ruch had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.

Player ratings

A brace, and Mateusz Praszelik takes the afternoon — 8.39

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mateusz Praszelik provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Ramil Mustafaev 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 Cracovia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Cracovia

Dominik Baumgartner 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.

Squad

Ajdin Hasić 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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Wiktor Bogacz

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.

Market

Eyes on Jean Batoum again

The phone has started ringing about Jean Batoum again, and this time the name on the line is Podbeskidzie. Cracovia are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

1 Edition

The Cracovia Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ajdin Hasić

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Mateusz Klich has been here 8 seasons

441 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Squad

Dominik Baumgartner signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dominik Baumgartner commits to Cracovia for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Cracovia

Dominik Baumgartner 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.

Squad

Ajdin Hasić 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.

Match

Mateusz Praszelik the difference as Cracovia beat Zaglebie

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mateusz Praszelik. 1‑0 against Zaglebie, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

36 months and counting on Otar Kakabadze

Still no offer on the table, and Otar Kakabadze’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Player ratings

Mateusz Praszelik takes the honours

Marked 7.89 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Cracovia had the best player on the pitch.

Market

Ramil Mustafaev is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Cracovia has been clear about where Ramil Mustafaev stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief