Szymon Pycek

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Process

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135 Edition

The Piast Post

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Emmanuel Twumasi damages knee ligaments — 113 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 113 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.

Market

Adrián Dalmau asks to leave Piast

“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.

Squad

Elton Fikaj: 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.” Piast have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Piast

Adrián Dalmau 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.

Market

Dinamo Minsk watching Šime Perko

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Piast have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Kacper Smoliński 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.

In brief

Back issues
126 Edition

The Piast Post

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jason Lokilo says Piast went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Piast

Dominik Holec 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 terraces

Piast supporters have found a favourite in Ivan Lima

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ivan Lima 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.

Player ratings

Leandro Sanca runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Jorge Félix 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.

Match

John Dembe answers Zaglebie immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. John Dembe had Piast level again within 4 minutes, and Zaglebie never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad

Adrián Dalmau left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Adrián Dalmau will call it something else in private.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ivan Lima

A mark of 7.71, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match

Piast share the spoils with Zaglebie

A 1‑1 draw with Zaglebie leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

93 Edition

The Pogon Gazette

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Éder Balanta signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Éder Balanta commits to Pogon for another 2 years.

Squad

Prince Adu Kwabena 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Attila Szalai 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.

In brief

91 Edition

The Pogon Gazette

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mor Ndiaye keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pogon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Attila Szalai 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Pogon

Nazareno Bazán Vera 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.

In brief