Marked for Bartosz Farbiszewski
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Crisis
Boardroom26 Mar 2029
The scrutiny sharpens at Wisla Krakow
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Wisla Krakow is running low.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Marko Božić 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 Wisla Krakow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Mar 2029
Words at Wisla Krakow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darijo Grujčić 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.
Match24 Mar 2029
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergio Camus, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout26 Mar 2029
Marko Božić has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Wisla Krakow 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 dugout26 Mar 2029
Mariusz Kutwa 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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Wisla Krakow lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
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Uneasy
Market19 Feb 2029
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wisla Krakow is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom19 Feb 2029
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Kamil Broda has agreed terms with Korona for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Mariusz Kutwa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Darijo Grujčić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Feb 2029
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch19 Feb 2029
28 appearances at Gornik Leczna and the goals keep coming. Wisla Krakow are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
“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.
Loan watch19 Feb 2029
“I watch every Wisla Krakow game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lechia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Piotr Klich to a room that had heard them before.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Jan 2029
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Bartosz Farbiszewski has, at Wisla Krakow, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad22 Jan 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ben Woodburn commits to Wisla Krakow for another 4 years.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Darijo Grujčić 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.
Transfer targets22 Jan 2029
Door shut on Darío
Wisla Krakow asked and Lech said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Ben Woodburn 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 Wisla Krakow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match20 Jan 2029
Three points for Wisla Krakow, 1‑0 the final word against Zaglebie in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings22 Jan 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Loan watch22 Jan 2029
“I watch every Wisla Krakow game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lechia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Loan watch22 Jan 2029
24 appearances at Gornik Leczna and the goals keep coming. Wisla Krakow are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Crisis
Match5 Aug 2028
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Aug 2028
0‑4 against Puszcza Niepołomice, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market7 Aug 2028
“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.
Match5 Aug 2028
7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can tell you which week it ends in.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Korona is saying, and nobody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Bartosz Farbiszewski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
The gap in the accounts was filled from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be grateful and to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings arrive together.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksander Gajgier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Match29 Jul 2028
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match29 Jul 2028
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets31 Jul 2028
Everything agreed with Korona, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Hubert Adamczyk 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.
Transfer targets31 Jul 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Motor Lublin have kept their man, and Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Jul 2028
ŁKS Łódź left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout31 Jul 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Filip Frankowski left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match3 Jul 2028
24 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market3 Jul 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Hubert Adamczyk 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksander Gajgier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Jul 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wisła Płock have kept their man, and Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Squad12 Jun 2028
43 days out for Robert Łukowiak after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Jun 2028
“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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
Everything agreed with Gornik Zabrze, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad12 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Aleksander Gajgier 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.
Transfer targets12 Jun 2028
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Salvatore Borrelli, and the manager let it.
Boardroom12 Jun 2028
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Crisis
Squad22 May 2028
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom22 May 2028
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad22 May 2028
Aleksander Gajgier 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 dugout22 May 2028
Hubert Adamczyk has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki 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 dugout22 May 2028
“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 dugout22 May 2028
Angelos Tsiris 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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Crisis
Match10 Apr 2028
Position 17, 24 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.
Match10 Apr 2028
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 24 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Match8 Apr 2028
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki are no longer polite ones.
Market10 Apr 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.
Match8 Apr 2028
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Hubert Adamczyk 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.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksander Gajgier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 Apr 2028
“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
The terraces3 Apr 2028
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom3 Apr 2028
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market3 Apr 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.
Match1 Apr 2028
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksander Gajgier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match1 Apr 2028
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match1 Apr 2028
0‑2 to Polonia Bytom, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Crisis
Boardroom27 Mar 2028
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Francisco Faria: 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.” Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
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 Hubert Adamczyk is on it.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aram Barkhudaryan 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.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kacper Kołotyło, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead27 Mar 2028
Polonia Bytom next, and one man in the Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Hubert Matynia 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Crisis
Match12 Feb 2028
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki are no longer polite ones.
Match14 Feb 2028
Position 16 and 19 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad14 Feb 2028
A one-man rearguard from Adam Wójcik
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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Dawid Nos, 20, steals the show — 7.62
Marked 7.62 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market14 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Hubert Adamczyk 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.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki asked and Lech said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Loan watch14 Feb 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and 4 appearances in 27 say he has earned the hearing.
The terraces14 Feb 2028
He is 20 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.
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Upbeat
Match1 Jan 2028
The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Youssuf Sylla decided nobody was going anywhere. Legia had no time left to answer.
Market3 Jan 2028
“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.
The dugout3 Jan 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jagiellonia may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guilherme Montóia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Jan 2028
Jagiellonia asked and Tigre said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market3 Jan 2028
Bernardo Vital is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Jagiellonia has been clear about where Bernardo Vital stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match1 Jan 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Youssuf Sylla. 1‑0 against Legia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Bartosz Farbiszewski 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 ratings3 Jan 2028
A mark of 7.76, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
When it matters, Jesús Imaz plays
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The dugout
Anders Klynge is still being punished for one mistake
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Crisis
Squad6 Dec 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 57 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market6 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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Karol Noiszewski 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.
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Aleksander Gajgier 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.
Loan watch6 Dec 2027
“I did not go to Jagiellonia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Match4 Dec 2027
Gornik Leczna left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match6 Dec 2027
Half the programme played, position 15, 17 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Hubert Adamczyk gets picked when it counts
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Jakub Janczy
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Steady
Match25 Nov 2027
A European night to remember for Jagiellonia
0‑0 against Viborg, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Jagiellonia — 7.55
1 for Bartosz Farbiszewski, marked 7.55, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Bernardo Vital 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
AZ Jackson 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 Jagiellonia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Marked 7.57 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Jagiellonia had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Filip Jagiełło will call it something else in private.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
A mark of 7.47, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Mateusz Moder on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Squad4 Oct 2027
Artur Amroziński damages knee ligaments — 65 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 65 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.
Market4 Oct 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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
A goal and an assist for Hubert Adamczyk — 7.64
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.64 beside his name.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
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.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I watch every Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Jagiellonia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The terraces4 Oct 2027
He is 20 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.
The dugout4 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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Upbeat
Match14 Aug 2027
4‑1, and Luis Palma took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Jagiellonia tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market16 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Polonia Bytom waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Jagiellonia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market16 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match14 Aug 2027
Nobody wants to play Jagiellonia right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Bernardo Vital 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Rodrigo Conceição 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.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“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 ratings16 Aug 2027
Leon Flach runs at them all day
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.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
GKS Katowice have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Steady
Market2 Aug 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 Jagiellonia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Taras Romanczuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Bernardo Vital 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.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Jagiellonia asked and GKS Katowice said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match31 Jul 2027
It finished 2‑1, and it was Sergio Lozano’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Jagiellonia.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad2 Aug 2027
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Jagiellonia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Loan watch2 Aug 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Jagiellonia, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Amroziński
129 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match31 Jul 2027
12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki has to find a result from somewhere.
Market2 Aug 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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kacper Łoś was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match31 Jul 2027
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Crisis
Market12 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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Karol Noiszewski and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Kacper Łoś 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.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
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.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
Jakub Janczy gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Bartłomiej Smolarczyk arrived with a record at a bigger club than this one, and the room has treated him accordingly. The young ones watch him train; the senior ones watch to see whether it lasts.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
“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.
Market12 Jul 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Kamil Kargulewicz may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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Crisis
Boardroom31 May 2027
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market31 May 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.
Market31 May 2027
The shirt still fits. Kacper Żelazowski is back at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad31 May 2027
Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 May 2027
Kacper Łoś 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.
Market31 May 2027
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad31 May 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market31 May 2027
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.