The Slask Herald
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Rio Ngumoha, 18, steals the show — 8.09
Marked 8.09 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Shakhtar deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Yegor Matsenko reports back to Slask with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match19 Sep 2026
Slask make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Slask have 4 straight wins of it.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Door shut on John Dembe
Slask asked and Sigma Olomouc said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Slask
Mariusz Malec and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Rio Ngumoha
At 18 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Przemysław Banaszak the difference as Slask beat Stal Mielec
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Przemysław Banaszak. 1‑0 against Stal Mielec, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Slask training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Marjanac 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Przemysław Banaszak in the eights
A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad Slask count the cost of losing Bartosz Głogowski
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Oskar Wojtczak