Marked for Mads Agger
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kacper Smoliński
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pogon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match31 Jul 2027
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market2 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Pogon people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match31 Jul 2027
Nobody wants to play Pogon right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Pogon
Valentin Cojocaru 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.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Filip Čuić at his very best
Marked 9.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Pogon.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Pogon will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Pogon
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Arkadiusz Milik knocks on the manager's door
Back issues
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Uneasy
The dugout31 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pogon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad31 May 2027
Words exchanged at Pogon
Valentin Cojocaru 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.
Market31 May 2027
Mor Ndiaye returns from a loan that gave him nothing
3 appearances and 0 goals is not a season, it is a year somebody has lost. Whether that is his fault, the borrowing club's or the people who arranged it is the argument the next few weeks will have.
The dugout31 May 2027
“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.
Market31 May 2027
Pogon have made Mor Ndiaye available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout31 May 2027
Paul Mukairu 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 Pogon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
The dugout24 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pogon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad24 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Pogon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hussein Ali 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 dugout24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Musa Juwara, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 May 2027
Paul Mukairu knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Paul Mukairu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout24 May 2027
Tristan Andrew has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Pogon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Market3 May 2027
Mads Agger hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pogon can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 May 2027
A falling-out at Pogon
Antoni Kozubal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Rajmund Molnár
“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.
Market3 May 2027
The Hussein Ali story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Hussein Ali signs something — a contract at Pogon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout3 May 2027
Nikodem Niski knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikodem Niski trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad3 May 2027
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Pogon will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Pogon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Hussein Ali was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Filip Čuić
“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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
José Pozo 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 Pogon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Jan Biegański has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Pogon will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Pogon
Antoni Kozubal 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Mads Agger
“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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Musa Juwara 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 Pogon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tristan Andrew is on it.
Market29 Mar 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rajmund Molnár’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jean-Pierre Nsame
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pogon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kamil Grosicki commits to Pogon for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Pogon
Valentin Cojocaru 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Kamil Grosicki asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match16 Jan 2027
5 matches without a win for Pogon
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Pogon are no longer polite ones.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Pogon
Valentin Cojocaru 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
A bad afternoon for Pogon against Korona
0‑1 to Korona, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Adam Frączczak has his answer from Pogon; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Mor Ndiaye 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 Pogon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Pogon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The deal with Lech is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Pogon
Kamil Grosicki and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mads Agger honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Pogon had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match2 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Pogon
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Pogon asked and Coventry City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mads Agger is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Mads Agger has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Wisla Krakow: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Upbeat
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Pogon
Jan Biegański 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dimitris Keramitsis, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Musa Juwara knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Musa Juwara trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Dec 2026
The Paul Mukairu story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Paul Mukairu signs something — a contract at Pogon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
Next up on the road: Wisla Krakow, position 8. The supporters who go will talk about it all week and the ones who do not will check their phones at ten to five.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Upbeat
Match5 Dec 2026
Nobody wants to play Pogon right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Pogon
Filip Čuić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Dec 2026
Ruch made Pogon work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The award goes to Jean-Pierre Nsame, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Paul Mukairu
7.77, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Pogon had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Musa Juwara named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Musa Juwara is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Mateusz Grosicki kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Sebastian Musiolik has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
13 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
70 days out for Johan Hammar after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. BK Hacken will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market23 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Johan Hammar
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Johan Hammar will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BK Hacken the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at BK Hacken
Etrit Berisha 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Gustav Lindgren asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
78 days out for Johan Hammar after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. BK Hacken will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” BK Hacken may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mads Agger honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. BK Hacken had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Market16 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at BK Hacken is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Etrit Berisha 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
A row about effort at BK Hacken
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Julius Lindberg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Uneasy
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Pogon's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pogon has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.98 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Pogon
Kellyn Acosta and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match7 Nov 2026
Honours even between Pogon and Lechia
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Mateusz Grosicki was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Pogon dressing room was either.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
13 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tristan Andrew, and the manager let it.
Market9 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kellyn Acosta signs something — a contract at Pogon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The plan did not have a place for Mor Ndiaye
Nobody at Pogon is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Both of them Mads Agger's — 9.02
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.02, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market12 Oct 2026
David Seger has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around BK Hacken they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Danilo Al-Saed commits to BK Hacken for another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 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 BK Hacken this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Harry Hilvenius is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Etrit Berisha, and the manager let it.
Match10 Oct 2026
BK Hacken caught on 87 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Gefle scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Gefle leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Uneasy
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.24 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Pogon
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Pogon are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Musa Juwara and Pogon agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Pogon 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Mateusz Grosicki chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
11 appearances at BK Hacken and the goals keep coming. Pogon are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
The dugout12 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.
In brief
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The dugout
A promise honoured at Pogon
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Market
The Kellyn Acosta story refuses to die
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The dugout
The plan did not have a place for Mor Ndiaye
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Etrit Berisha and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Mads Agger’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to BK Hacken.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Martin Tankovic and BK Hacken agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lars Sætra, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
17 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.94 on the card, and the BK Hacken support went home talking about one name.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at BK Hacken
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Julius Lindberg was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Simon Quaison could afford to be generous.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad5 Oct 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Miłosz Kurzydłowski is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
Match3 Oct 2026
A point taken on 95 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
93% of the income goes out in wages at Pogon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout5 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Pogon and Korona 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Pogon
Kamil Grosicki 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Mor Ndiaye
“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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.56. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Jagiellonia came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Korona next, and one man in the Pogon dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Mor Ndiaye does not fit this one
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Jordi Sanchez gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jordi Sanchez is on it.
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Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at BK Hacken is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Etrit Berisha 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Mads Agger was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.26. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match19 Sep 2026
It needed Mads Agger to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against IFK Norrkoping, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Simon Quaison was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the BK Hacken dressing room was either.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Julius Lindberg dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at BK Hacken
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Martin Tankovic was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Wilson Lindberg Uhrström is on it.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against IF Elfsborg in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Pogon
Kellyn Acosta 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match19 Sep 2026
Pogon draw a blank against Piast
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Piast defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Jagiellonia next, and one man in the Pogon dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Kamil Grosicki unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Kamil Grosicki has let it be known that he does not like the way Pogon are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
The goals keep arriving from Mads Agger’s exile
4 goals in 8 games at BK Hacken — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Pogon updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
12 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market14 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for David Seger
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. David Seger will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around BK Hacken the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Match12 Sep 2026
Malmo FF left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at BK Hacken training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Julius Lindberg 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 dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Brice Wembangomo, and the manager let it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Sanders Ngabo gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sanders Ngabo is on it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
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Crisis
Match5 Sep 2026
Wilson Lindberg Uhrström had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Orebro were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Wilson Lindberg Uhrström, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94
A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Johan Hammar has agreed terms with Djurgarden for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Match5 Sep 2026
2‑3 to Orebro, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at BK Hacken
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Lars Sætra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at BK Hacken
Dion Gashi 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Mads Agger runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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.
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Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 9 in, 5 out at Pogon
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Pogon asked and Columbus Crew said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Pogon
Mor Ndiaye 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Pogon 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Henrique Arreiol
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Henrique Arreiol has come out of that comparison in the side, and Pogon have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Musa Juwara, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Tristan Andrew has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Pogon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Mor Ndiaye has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Mor Ndiaye has written the date down.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 BK Hacken, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
Johan Hammar has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around BK Hacken they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Elias Börjesson has agreed terms with Falkenberg for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for BK Hacken, 1‑0 the final word against Djurgarden in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 Aug 2026
David Seger 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Olle Samuelsson 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at BK Hacken
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.65. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Lars Sætra
“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.