The Ruch Courier
Squad8 Jan 2029
Mateusz Szwoch damages knee ligaments — 106 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 106 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.
Match6 Jan 2029
Whatever happens, Ruch do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad8 Jan 2029
AZ Jackson in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market8 Jan 2029
Zaglebie are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Ruch will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Patryk Szwedzik 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.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Adam Mesjasz 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 ratings8 Jan 2029
Patryk Szwedzik takes the honours
Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ruch had the best player on the pitch.
Player ratings8 Jan 2029
Nobody could get near AZ Jackson
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match6 Jan 2029
Ruch and Cracovia take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- Market The clock does Daniel Szczepan’s negotiating for him
- Market Jan Moder leaves for nothing
- Player ratings The referee tires of Patryk Sikora