Marked for Ryoya Kimura
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Sep 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Leonardo Koutris 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad6 Sep 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
The Paul Mukairu conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Wisla Krakow will make the call about Paul Mukairu this week. Pogon have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market14 Jun 2027
Pogon get their man
The chase for Jean Batoum ended with $390.0K changing hands and Cracovia out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad14 Jun 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kacper Stanowski is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market14 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Musa Juwara again, and this time the name on the line is Podbeskidzie. Pogon are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Attila Szalai 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Age has not caught Kamil Grosicki yet — 8.08
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.08 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
23 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ryoya Kimura is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Pogon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Attila Szalai 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 ratings28 Dec 2026
A performance of 9.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
Fredrik Ulvestad damages knee ligaments — 49 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 49 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Pavlo Isenko
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.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 unbeaten for Pogon
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Pogon did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 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.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
Pogon supporters have found a favourite in Filip Čuić
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Filip Čuić has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.15 — 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Filip Čuić at his very best
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Pogon.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Lech to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pogon and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Pogon
Kamil Grosicki 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 Oct 2026
Ryoya Kimura is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Pogon
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match10 Oct 2026
Three points for Pogon, 2‑1 the final word against Zaglebie in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Zadar to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pogon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandr Sojka has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Filip Čuić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.67. 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Fredrik Ulvestad 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.07 — 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Pavlo Isenko 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Attila Szalai 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Pavlo Isenko
“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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 8.03 — 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Zadar to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pogon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Wisla Krakow leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Leonardo Koutris dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Shots: 4, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 5.19, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.