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218 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

30 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market30 Sep 2030

Kamil Jakóbczyk 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 The request is on a desk at Gornik Zabrze, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad30 Sep 2030

3 goals for Yvan Ikia Dimi

The match ball belongs to Yvan Ikia Dimi, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match28 Sep 2030

At last: Gornik Zabrze win one

11 matches without a win, and then this, against Zaglebie. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

The dugout30 Sep 2030

Robert Barnes: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Gornik Zabrze have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad30 Sep 2030

Tempers go at Gornik Zabrze

Ondřej Zmrzlý 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.

Market30 Sep 2030

Igor Świerkowski is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gornik Zabrze is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match28 Sep 2030

Yvan Ikia Dimi among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Yvan Ikia Dimi on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Gornik Zabrze and Zaglebie.

Player ratings30 Sep 2030

A masterclass from Yvan Ikia Dimi

Marked 9.78 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match28 Sep 2030

Yvan Ikia Dimi sends Gornik Zabrze past Zaglebie

It finished 4‑2, and it was Yvan Ikia Dimi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Gornik Zabrze.

In brief

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217 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

23 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match21 Sep 2030

No end in sight to Gornik Zabrze's wait for a win

11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gornik Zabrze has to find a result from somewhere.

Match23 Sep 2030

Every point is an argument now for Gornik Zabrze

Position 14 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market23 Sep 2030

Dawid Piatek has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gornik Zabrze they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad23 Sep 2030

Ondřej Zmrzlý 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 Gornik Zabrze this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Sep 2030

500 appearances for Taras Romanczuk

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

Squad23 Sep 2030

A row about effort at Gornik Zabrze

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

Match21 Sep 2030

3 matches without a goal for Gornik Zabrze

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match21 Sep 2030

Gornik Zabrze come up short against Gornik Leczna

Gornik Leczna left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad23 Sep 2030

Robert Barnes wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Gornik Zabrze know it.

In brief

216 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

16 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match14 Sep 2030

The wait goes on for Gornik Zabrze

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings16 Sep 2030

Nobody could get near Adrian Przyborek

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad16 Sep 2030

18 days out for Kajetan Fal after a fracture

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

Market16 Sep 2030

Robert Barnes asks to leave Gornik Zabrze

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad16 Sep 2030

A falling-out at Gornik Zabrze

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

Squad16 Sep 2030

Adrian Przyborek 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.

Boardroom16 Sep 2030

Gornik Zabrze beat the market to Lyndon Dykes from Gornik Leczna

Gornik Leczna will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lyndon Dykes has pre-agreed a move to Gornik Zabrze, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match14 Sep 2030

A bad afternoon for Gornik Zabrze against Korona

0‑1 to Korona, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout16 Sep 2030

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Grzegorz Buksa left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

209 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

29 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market29 Jul 2030

Only the photograph left for Ottó Hindrich

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ottó Hindrich will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gornik Zabrze the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market29 Jul 2030

Michał Chrapek 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 Gornik Zabrze, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets29 Jul 2030

Lassina Traoré turns down Gornik Zabrze

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Shakhtar keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Ondřej Zmrzlý 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 Gornik Zabrze this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad29 Jul 2030

Words at Gornik Zabrze training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yvan Ikia Dimi 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.

Transfer targets29 Jul 2030

Gornik Zabrze rebuffed over Jakub Piotrowski

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Crvena Zvezda have kept their man, and Gornik Zabrze go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match27 Jul 2030

A bad afternoon for Gornik Zabrze against Slask

1‑2 to Slask, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout29 Jul 2030

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Grzegorz Buksa left the room before anybody could ask which.

Market29 Jul 2030

Gornik Zabrze buy the years ahead of Robert Barnes

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief