Marked for Marcel Reguła
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
Seweryn Marek damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market18 Jan 2027
Marcel Reguła 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 Zaglebie can pretend not to have heard.
Match16 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Zaglebie's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zaglebie has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dynamo Kyiv keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Arkadiusz Milik 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Bruk-Bet Termalica left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets18 Jan 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
36 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
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Crisis
Squad11 Jan 2027
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Zaglebie lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market11 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zaglebie can pretend not to have heard.
Market11 Jan 2027
Turan Tovuz come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zaglebie did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match9 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Zaglebie
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad11 Jan 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Zaglebie — 7.69
1 for Damian Michalski, marked 7.69, 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The deal with Pogoń Siedlce is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Zaglebie
Arkadiusz Milik 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.
Match9 Jan 2027
Lech left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Crisis
Squad4 Jan 2027
Seweryn Marek damages knee ligaments — 29 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 29 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 Jan 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 Zaglebie, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Zaglebie did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Zaglebie
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marcel Reguła is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Cyprian Popielec has agreed terms with Pogoń Siedlce for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Zaglebie
Rafał Gikiewicz 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zaglebie has been clear about where Damian Michalski stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Arkadiusz Milik 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Filip Szymczak’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zaglebie.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Zaglebie training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Damian Dąbrowski 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 ratings23 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Bartosz Piatek on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Yakuba, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Steady
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Damian Dąbrowski: 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.” Zaglebie have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Zaglebie
Arkadiusz Milik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Zaglebie training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Damian Dąbrowski 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Marcel Reguła
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Zaglebie are still strangers to each other
9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Zaglebie
Something was said to Michalis Kosidis and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against GKS Katowice in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout12 Oct 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 Michał Nalepa has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Match3 Oct 2026
3‑0, and Levente Szabó took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Zaglebie tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Zaglebie — 7.76
1 for Aleks Ławniczak, marked 7.76, 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.
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 Zaglebie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
Zaglebie settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Arka Gdynia spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jakub Sypek, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
95% of the income goes out in wages at Zaglebie
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Marcel Reguła
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Marcel Reguła has come out of that comparison in the side, and Zaglebie have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout5 Oct 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.” Bartosz Piatek kept it short after the 3‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Zaglebie
Rafał Gikiewicz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastian Kowalczyk, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Zaglebie
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Damian Dąbrowski was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match20 Sep 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Motor Lublin leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market21 Sep 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Adam Radwański has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Zaglebie.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Bartosz Piatek chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Marcel Reguła, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Zaglebie would like this to lead.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.