The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Branislav Spáčil says Gornik Zabrze went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The step up is real for Anthony Rogalski
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 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Gornik Zabrze
Kacper Urbański 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Gornik Zabrze
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Josema was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Too much change too quickly at Gornik Zabrze
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Klāvs Bethers 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 Gornik Zabrze, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Kryspin Szcześniak
“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 dugout12 Apr 2027
When it matters, Rafał Janicki plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market12 Apr 2027
The Erik Prekop talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gornik Zabrze know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Roberto Massimo leaves on loan
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Bruno Durdov
- Match Mid-table, and Gornik Zabrze know it