119 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Arka Gdynia lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Arka Gdynia will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Everything agreed with Jagiellonia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Arka Gdynia asked and Jagiellonia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Alassane Sidibé 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 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kasjan Lipkowski trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Arka Gdynia will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Two goals and a mark of 7.65 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Arka Gdynia can pretend not to have heard.
Alassane Sidibé 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.
A 3‑1 win over Polonia Bytom, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Widzew Łódź have kept their man, and Arka Gdynia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
At 22 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.
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Hellas Syros waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Arka Gdynia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The offer went to Bruk-Bet Termalica this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Arka Gdynia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Jonasz Albert has just signed for Arka Gdynia, and for once the answer mattered.
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Paweł Tupaj has agreed terms with Wisla Krakow for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
The offer went to Chrobry Głogów this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Position 3, 42 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
At 23 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.
Everyone has stopped pretending: Legia will make the call about Thodoros Tsirigotis this week. Gornik Zabrze have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
“I did not go to Miedź Legnica to sit and watch. I want to come back to Gornik Zabrze and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 31 matches say the rest.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Gornik Zabrze people have started saying his name in the past tense.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gornik Zabrze can pretend not to have heard.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Peter Federico was one of the reasons people came, and $7.6M does not replace that by itself.
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Oliwier Kwiatkowski has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Gornik Zabrze have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ruch have kept their man, and Gornik Zabrze go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gornik Zabrze this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.