Marcel Lainer

Defensive Midfielder - Retired
7 May 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Marcel Lainer

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The Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki Chronicle

30 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Filip Adamski says Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki 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.

Market

Marcel Lainer 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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Daniel Janků due for a Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki medical

Everything agreed with Stal Mielec, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

A row about effort at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksander Gajgier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom

Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

The dugout

No hiding place for Jakub Kaduk

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

Squad

Cristian Herrera out for 52 days

The medical room confirms 52 days on the sidelines for Cristian Herrera, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

100 appearances for Marcel Lainer

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad

Tempers go at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki

Oscar Burrion 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.

In brief

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The Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki Chronicle

28 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Marcin Bednarek damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 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

A fracture rules Dusty Vanerom out for 74 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Jakub Kaduk 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 Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

$38.0K settles it between the clubs for Aitor Arias

Motor Lublin have accepted the money. What Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Squad

A falling-out at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki

Hubert Adamczyk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksander Gajgier was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki ask about Kacper Kołotyło

A loan enquiry to Puszcza Niepołomice: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki ask about Grzegorz Piszczek

A loan enquiry to Motor Lublin: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

When it matters, Marcel Lainer 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.

In brief