Marked for Marko Kolar
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match16 Jan 2027
17 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 17, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Mateusz Szwoch out for 99 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ruch will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match16 Jan 2027
Ruch cannot find the net
9 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market18 Jan 2027
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The fee is $500.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Wisla Krakow drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Ruch
Dominik Preisler 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.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Piotr Starzyński from Wisla Krakow for $500.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Cristhian Subero 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.
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Ruch
13 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
5 matches without a goal for Ruch
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dominik Preisler 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ruch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
8 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Dominik Preisler 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Jagiellonia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Max Watson, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Piotr Ceglarz knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ruch, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Crisis
Market9 Nov 2026
“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.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 matches without a goal for Ruch
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Dominik Preisler 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Piast take the points off Ruch
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Piotr Ceglarz 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristhian Subero, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Daniel Szczepan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ruch, another week without a signature from Jakub Domagała.
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Crisis
Match2 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Ruch
Position 13 and 10 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Daniil Pylypchuk: 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.” Ruch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a goal for Ruch
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateusz Szwoch 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match5 Oct 2026
Ruch are in real trouble now
Position 13, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dominik Preisler 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Ruch
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikodem Proczek
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ruch lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateusz Szwoch 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Ruch 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Ruch?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Podbeskidzie? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market21 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Aleksander Komor may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market21 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Ksawery Kwiatkowski leaves Ruch the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market21 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Jakub Kowalski leaves Ruch the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nikodem Proczek
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ruch lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dominik Preisler 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 terraces14 Sep 2026
Ruch supporters have found a favourite in Szymon Bębenek
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Szymon Bębenek has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ruch get the job done against Lechia
A 1‑0 win over Lechia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market14 Sep 2026
Ruch spent the window trying to move Szymon Bębenek on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nikodem Proczek damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Ruch
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Max Watson, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Match5 Sep 2026
No goals between Ruch and Slask
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Slask will be the happier side with the point.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ruch will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Dominik Preisler 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mateusz Szwoch 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ruch come up short against Korona
Korona left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bartłomiej Gradecki, and the manager let it.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Daniel Szczepan’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jakub Szymański has his answer from Ruch; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ruch bring in an old head
Konrad Wrzesiński is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Michał Chrapek and Ruch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Martin Konczkowski 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Chrapek 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Daniel Szczepan did the work nobody counts — 6.70
12 combined actions and 6.70. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Market3 Aug 2026
Jakub Bielecki is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ruch has been clear about where Jakub Bielecki stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match1 Aug 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Marko Kolar had Ruch level again within 2 minutes, and Jagiellonia never got to play with a lead at all.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ruch, another week without a signature from Michał Chrapek.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Szymon Szymański’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.