The Widzew Łódź Post
Squad17 Mar 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Filip Linetty
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Widzew Łódź lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings17 Mar 2036
Igor Busz beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market17 Mar 2036
Antoni Wasiak-Libiszowski is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Widzew Łódź is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Michalis Kosidis 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 Widzew Łódź this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Mar 2036
Words at Widzew Łódź training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christopher Cheng 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.
The dugout17 Mar 2036
Raffaele Aresini 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.
Squad17 Mar 2036
10 new faces, and Widzew Łódź are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings17 Mar 2036
Christopher Cheng takes the honours
Marked 7.40 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Widzew Łódź had the best player on the pitch.
Market17 Mar 2036
A long bet from Widzew Łódź on Jacob Mitchell
He is 19, and nobody at Widzew Łódź signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
In brief
- Loan watch Łukasz Jakubowski’s loan is measured in nothing happening
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Wiktor Kania knocks on the manager’s door