Marked for Bartosz Borowski
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Steady
Market9 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Wisła Płock is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Wisła Płock training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saïd Hamulić 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
One of those days for Deni Jurić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.13, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Marin Karamarko 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Michal Grosicki after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Market9 Nov 2026
The Saïd Hamulić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wisła Płock know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Steady
Match14 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over Ruch, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Bartosz Borowski, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.03
A mark of 8.03 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Wisła Płock may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bastien Donio 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Saïd Hamulić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Kyriakos Savvidis 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Cracovia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Gleb Kuchko
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wisła Płock they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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
Words at Wisła Płock training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kyriakos Savvidis 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marin Karamarko 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Saïd Hamulić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Wisła Płock know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Jime 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 Wisła Płock, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Wisła Płock that is a harder question to answer.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Dani Pacheco has been promised minutes
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 Dani Pacheco has written the date down.
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Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Wisła Płock people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 Wisła Płock, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marin Karamarko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
Legia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kyriakos Savvidis was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Smorgon for Gleb Kuchko was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Saïd Hamulić and Wisła Płock agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Saïd Hamulić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Bartosz Borowski 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Saïd Hamulić
Still no offer on the table, and Saïd Hamulić’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Wisła Płock are still strangers to each other
6 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Deni Jurić asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.