Marked for Eman Marković
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match26 Dec 2026
It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match26 Dec 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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 ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“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.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Gornik Zabrze to sit and watch. I want to come back to GKS Katowice and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
7.47, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. GKS Katowice had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Uneasy
Match9 Dec 2026
The small margins put GKS Katowice out
Out, 1‑1 to Lechia, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match12 Dec 2026
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Rafał Strączek: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from Dawid Kudła
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match12 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, GKS Katowice do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Ammar Ramadan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Bosch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match14 Dec 2026
Half the programme played, position 14, 15 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
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Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dawid Kudła commits to GKS Katowice for another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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 ratings7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
It needed Ammar Ramadan to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Gornik Zabrze, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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 ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Eman Marković 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dawid Kudła and GKS Katowice agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I watch every GKS Katowice game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Gornik Zabrze runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 7.22. 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 dugout30 Nov 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.” Sebastian Moder chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksander Paluszek, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
4 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marius Olsen 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Late, late show earns GKS Katowice a point
Minute 96, against Legia, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Eman Marković
“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.
Match21 Nov 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sebastian Moder after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Mateusz Wdowiak 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
Match26 Oct 2026
Position 17, 9 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.
Squad26 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 GKS Katowice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jesse Bosch 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Eman Marković
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and GKS Katowice 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings26 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
42 days out for Mateusz Marzec after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. GKS Katowice will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jesse Bosch 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eman Marković 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.08 — 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Match26 Sep 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sebastian Moder after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ammar Ramadan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for GKS Katowice
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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 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 GKS Katowice, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 22 gone
That is the business done at GKS Katowice until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eman Marković was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Lukas Klemenz’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and GKS Katowice needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Maciej Rosołek 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
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Lechia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. GKS Katowice have done the hard part with DAC Dunajska Streda, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market17 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. GKS Katowice have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Widzew Łódź for Kacper Łukasiak was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $650.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Widzew Łódź drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jesse Bosch 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 GKS Katowice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
GKS Katowice spend $650.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $650.0K for Maciej Kikolski, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.