Patrick O'Brien

Goalkeeper - Polonia Warszawa
1 Dec 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Patrick O'Brien

6 Edition

The Polonia Warszawa Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Souleymane Cissé 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 Polonia Warszawa can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 17 signed and 28 gone

That is the business done at Polonia Warszawa until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

RWDM tell Polonia Warszawa: Simon Kalambayi is not for sale

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.

Squad

Antonio Leal 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 Polonia Warszawa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Łukasz Zjawiński

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Łukasz Zjawiński has come out of that comparison in the side, and Polonia Warszawa have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

Aleksander Buksa slips down the pecking order

The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Aleksander Buksa is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.

Squad

Words at Polonia Warszawa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hajdin Salihu 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Patrick O'Brien

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Patrick O'Brien, and the manager let it.

Market

Still no ink between Polonia Warszawa and Marek Mróz

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Polonia Warszawa, another week without a signature from Marek Mróz.

In brief