Marc Castells

Central Defender - Stal Rzeszów
6 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Marc Castells

11 Edition

The Stal Rzeszów Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Karol Łysiak is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.

Squad

Jonathan Júnior 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 Stal Rzeszów this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Stal Rzeszów

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ksawery Kukułka was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

No place for Marc Castells in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Stal Rzeszów are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Szymon Kądziołka 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 Szymon Kądziołka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The terraces

The stands have heard the Oliwier Sławiński talk too

What was a back-page story is now a matter for the terraces, and the terraces do not do nuance. Stal Rzeszów would like it dealt with before it becomes the only question anybody asks.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Stal Rzeszów Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

11 saves: Marek Kozioł was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

A falling-out at Stal Rzeszów

Patryk Warczak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Stal Rzeszów training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonathan Júnior 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 229% of the Stal Rzeszów income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

Squad

100 appearances for Oliwier Sławiński

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

Kamil Glik on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Kamil Glik after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Market

Marc Castells brings the grey hairs Stal Rzeszów lacked

At 36, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Match

No goals between Stal Rzeszów and Wisla Krakow

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Wisla Krakow will be the happier side with the point.

The dugout

Szymon Kądziołka 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.

In brief