Marked for Leon Flach
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Upbeat
Match7 Dec 2026
Jagiellonia refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 26 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Arkadiusz Milik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Dec 2026
A 2‑0 win over Ruch, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Arkadiusz Milik at his very best
Marked 8.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Jagiellonia.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Jagiellonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andy Pelmard is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Bartłomiej Wdowik was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.27. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Sergio Lozano at his very best
Marked 8.08. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Jagiellonia.
Match7 Dec 2026
Half the programme played, position 3, 26 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Newertton
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Newertton has come out of that comparison in the side, and Jagiellonia have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Arkadiusz Milik takes the afternoon — 8.82
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Arkadiusz Milik provided it, and the 8.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arkadiusz Milik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Rodrigo Conceição and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sławomir Abramowicz, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ousmane Sow beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market19 Oct 2026
Leon Flach told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Leon Flach has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Jagiellonia.
Match17 Oct 2026
A goal on 91 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Something was said to Newertton and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Lech leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Arkadiusz Milik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Jagiellonia
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Paweł Czułowski 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
Leon Flach 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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Lech in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sławomir Abramowicz signs something — a contract at Jagiellonia or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nobody at Jagiellonia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Steady
Squad5 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 Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Jagiellonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andy Pelmard is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Karol Szymański commits to Jagiellonia for another 2 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Arkadiusz Milik named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Arkadiusz Milik is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Arkadiusz Milik has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Jagiellonia will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Adam Buksa was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Jagiellonia dressing room was either.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bernardo Vital and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arkadiusz Milik was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Arkadiusz Milik. 2‑0 against Zaglebie, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Arkadiusz Milik was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.69. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Jagiellonia can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Adam Buksa kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
A promise honoured for Leon Flach
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Jagiellonia told Leon Flach something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
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Squad
The division's best last weekend was a Jagiellonia man
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Nahuel Leiva
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The dugout
No place in the plan for Ousmane Sow
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Crisis
Squad21 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 Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Arkadiusz Milik 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.
Match20 Sep 2026
Bartłomiej Wdowik scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Korona, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout21 Sep 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Bartłomiej Wdowik was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Rodrigo Conceição
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
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Upbeat
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 3 in, 13 out at Jagiellonia
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 13 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Taras Romanczuk 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Jagiellonia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Arkadiusz Milik is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Bartłomiej Wdowik has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Newertton: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Jagiellonia will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Yuki Kobayashi
“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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Arkadiusz Milik’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Jagiellonia needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Norbert Wojtuszek has written the date down.