Marked for Kamil Rutowski
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.
Back issues
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.