Marked for Marcel Reguła
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Pogon
Fredrik Ulvestad 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.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2026
Pogon bow out of the cup
Korona go through and Pogon go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A debut Marcel Reguła will not forget — 8.24
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 8.24 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A first appearance Kacper Stanowski will want to forget — 5.55
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.55, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pogon
Valentin Cojocaru 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.
Squad24 Aug 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Pogon supporters have found a favourite in Marcel Reguła
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Marcel Reguła 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.
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Steady
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 27 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Linus Wahlqvist and Pogon agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Kamil Grosicki
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Kacper Smoliński has come up in conversations Pogon were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Pogon has been clear about where Leonardo Koutris stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Valentin Cojocaru’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Marcel Reguła is 19, and Pogon have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
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Triumph
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Pogon pay $45.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Gornik Leczna, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Michał Nalepa 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jakub Kolan and Zaglebie agree another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Levente Szabó's contract
48 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Damian Dąbrowski 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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Shots: 5, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.