The Ruch Courier
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Daniel Szczepan goes
Podbeskidzie paid $1.2M and Ruch took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Ruch
Sebastian Mrowca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on John Dembe
Ruch asked and Sigma Olomouc said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Arkadiusz Glik joins the Ruch first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Arkadiusz Glik is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Szymon Glik steps up from the Ruch academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Szymon Glik 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ruch promote Lukasz Klich from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lukasz Klich has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ruch come up short against Korona
Korona left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Sebastian Mrowca is a square peg at Ruch
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ruch are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- The dugout Tomasz Szymanski faces the questions
- Player ratings Shuma Nagamatsu was unplayable
- The dugout Ruch pick somebody else ahead of Jakub Bielecki