Marked for Alex Pullchz
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market26 Oct 2026
Michał Bojdys 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 KTP can pretend not to have heard.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; KTP are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Alex Pullchz
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at KTP
Erick Chávez 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Alex Pullchz knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at KTP, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at KTP
Atomu Tanaka 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; KTP are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and KTP are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
64 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alex Pullchz, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I want to play”: Alex Pullchz speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.