The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle
Squad2 Jul 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kajetan Fal
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gornik Zabrze lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market2 Jul 2029
Michał Rakoczy puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Gornik Zabrze, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Rafał Mikulec gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rafał Mikulec has just signed for Gornik Zabrze, and for once the answer mattered.
The dugout2 Jul 2029
Bartosz Talar keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gornik Zabrze may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Kamil Jakóbczyk is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
Aldo Martano turns down Gornik Zabrze
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Swansea City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Antoni Bałabuch signs for Piast while still at Gornik Zabrze
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Antoni Bałabuch has agreed terms with Piast for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad2 Jul 2029
A falling-out at Gornik Zabrze
Ondřej Zmrzlý and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market2 Jul 2029
Rafał Mikulec is a Gornik Zabrze player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
In brief
- Transfer targets Slovan Bratislava tell Gornik Zabrze: Shota Shekiladze is not for sale
- Transfer targets Gornik Zabrze try to borrow Dawid Kurminowski
- Transfer targets A loan move for Xavier Dziekoński is in the works