Marked for Kamil Rutowski
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market16 Oct 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marko Dijakovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slask the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
Kamil Rutowski: 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.” Slask have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Oct 2028
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad16 Oct 2028
A falling-out at Slask
Vladislavs Gutkovskis and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Przemysław Banaszak 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.
Squad16 Oct 2028
Slask are still strangers to each other
5 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.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Dani González
“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.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
“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.
Looking ahead16 Oct 2028
Stal Mielec next, and one man in the Slask dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match23 Sep 2028
Whatever happens, Slask do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market25 Sep 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slask can pretend not to have heard.
Squad25 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slask this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad25 Sep 2028
Words at Slask training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Przemysław Banaszak 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.
Match23 Sep 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Piotr Samiec-Talar. 2‑0 against ŁKS Łódź, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
Piotr Samiec-Talar was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.28. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
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.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Dawid Moder kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout25 Sep 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad31 May 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Slask will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Market31 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Slask can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 May 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marko Dijakovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Slask the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 May 2027
Words at Slask training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Maciej Kuziemka 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.
Squad31 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Slask this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout31 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Luka Marjanac
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match29 Mar 2027
Slask are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 54 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Slask may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Mar 2027
He is 21, he is averaging 7.07, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Patryk Sokołowski 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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Damian Warchoł
“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.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Chrobry Głogów in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market29 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Slask know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes Luka Marjanac a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Slask. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.