Abdul Mendy

Goalkeeper - GKS Tychy
17 Mar 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Abdul Mendy

27 Edition

The GKS Tychy Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Oskar Repka damages knee ligaments — 40 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

46 days out for Piotr Krawczyk after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. GKS Tychy will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Abdul Mendy puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at GKS Tychy, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Samuel Kováčik beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

GKS Tychy rebuffed over Michael Ameyaw

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Raków Częstochowa have kept their man, and GKS Tychy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

GKS Tychy close the window on a squad of their own making

2 in and 4 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Words exchanged at GKS Tychy

Oskar Repka and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Samuel Kováčik has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. GKS Tychy know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Market

GKS Tychy and Bartosz Salamon are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The GKS Tychy Post

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Piotr Krawczyk breaks a bone — 113 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 113 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

No end in sight to GKS Tychy's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Tychy has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

GKS Tychy cannot find the net

8 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad

Tempers go at GKS Tychy

Bartosz Salamon 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.

Squad

Words at GKS Tychy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Mądrzyk 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.

Boardroom

138% of the income goes out in wages at GKS Tychy

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Noel Niemann

A mark of 7.51, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Grzegorz Lewandowski was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the GKS Tychy dressing room was either.

Squad

Oskar Repka suspended

One booking too many, and Oskar Repka sits out. GKS Tychy lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.

In brief

10 Edition

The GKS Tychy Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at GKS Tychy

Bartosz Salamon 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 160% of everything GKS Tychy earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Paweł Łysiak for 16 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. GKS Tychy will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Squad

Luís Silva 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.

Squad

This league is too small for Bartosz Salamon

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. GKS Tychy will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Still no ink between GKS Tychy and Bartosz Salamon

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at GKS Tychy, another week without a signature from Bartosz Salamon.

The dugout

Grzegorz Lewandowski on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Grzegorz Lewandowski after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Abdul Mendy gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings

Max Pawłowski runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

2 Edition

The GKS Tychy Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.7M for Oskar Repka

GKS Tychy have gone to Raków Częstochowa with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

An offer of $650.0K for Maciej Kikolski

GKS Tychy have gone to Widzew Łódź with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom

GKS Tychy go back to the board over Oskar Repka

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.0M — a club that wants Oskar Repka enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Luís Silva signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luís Silva and GKS Tychy agree another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at GKS Tychy

Luís Silva and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A move Abdul Mendy would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Abdul Mendy is living that version at GKS Tychy, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Words at GKS Tychy training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Mądrzyk 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

Luís Silva gets it from the manager

“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.

Market

Filip Klich steps up from the GKS Tychy academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Filip Klich has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief