The Lech Sentinel
Market1 May 2028
Patrik Wålemark wants more than Lech are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad1 May 2028
Chukwubuikem Ikwuemesi 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 Lech know it.
Squad1 May 2028
Words exchanged at Lech
Jérémy Blasco 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.
Market1 May 2028
Mateusz Klich steps up from the Lech academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mateusz 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.
Market1 May 2028
Jan Buksa steps up from the Lech academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jan Buksa 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.
Market1 May 2028
One of our own: Szymon Grosicki joins the Lech first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Szymon Grosicki is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad1 May 2028
A row about effort at Lech
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Robert Gumny was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 May 2028
Lech count the cost of losing Tymoteusz Gmur
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout1 May 2028
Anton Yefremov 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.
In brief
- The dugout Patrik Wålemark has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout João Moutinho knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager makes Volodymyr Vilivald a promise