Josema

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19 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Josema

7 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Paweł Bochniewicz out for 72 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gornik Zabrze will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Gornik Zabrze

The unbeaten run reaches 7. 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 targets

Gornik Zabrze rebuffed over Mariusz Stępiński

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Korona have kept their man, and Gornik Zabrze go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Gornik Zabrze training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josema 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 ratings

Erik Prekop in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Peter Federico beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Josema is still paying for one afternoon at Gornik Zabrze

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Match

Gornik Zabrze share the spoils with Jagiellonia

A 1‑1 draw with Jagiellonia leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

The dugout

Karol Linetty on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Karol Linetty after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Paweł Bochniewicz out for 88 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gornik Zabrze will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Whatever happens, Gornik Zabrze do not lose

6 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.

Squad

Words at Gornik Zabrze training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ondřej Zmrzlý 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.

Transfer targets

Ludogorets tell Gornik Zabrze: Alberto Salido is not for sale

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.

Squad

Gornik Zabrze are still strangers to each other

10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ondřej Zmrzlý

A mark of 7.60, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Words exchanged at Gornik Zabrze

Mateusz Posmyk 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 dugout

Jarosław Kubicki 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.

Player ratings

Janis Antiste 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Cup progress for Gornik Zabrze

A 1‑0 win over Slask, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Squad

96 days out for Paweł Bochniewicz after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gornik Zabrze will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

What a way to start for Jonasz Albert — 7.61

1 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.61 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.

Market

Michał Bedronka puts it in writing

“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 Gornik Zabrze, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets

Alex Valera turns down Gornik Zabrze

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Universitario keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Korona tell Gornik Zabrze: Bartłomiej Smolarczyk is not for sale

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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Jonasz Albert

At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Gornik Zabrze lose Brian Malecki

49 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Gornik Zabrze see off Piast

Three points for Gornik Zabrze, 1‑0 the final word against Piast in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

1 Edition

The Gornik Zabrze Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Yvan Ikia Dimi wins it after the whistle should have gone

90 minutes played. Yvan Ikia Dimi found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Slask went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

Both of them Yvan Ikia Dimi's — 8.58

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.58, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Lukáš Sadílek 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 Gornik Zabrze this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Erik Janža stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Erik Janža and Gornik Zabrze agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Gornik Zabrze rebuffed over Matías Arezo

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Penarol have kept their man, and Gornik Zabrze go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Gornik Zabrze find a way past Slask

Slask made Gornik Zabrze work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Yvan Ikia Dimi

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

A row about effort at Gornik Zabrze

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

Squad

8 new faces, and Gornik Zabrze 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.

In brief