Marked for Iván Torregrosa
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Crisis
Squad28 Dec 2026
Filip Szabaciuk damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
No end in sight to Gornik Leczna's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Gornik Leczna has to find a result from somewhere.
Match26 Dec 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Gornik Leczna and Wisla Krakow, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match26 Dec 2026
Wisla Krakow left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
152% of the income goes out in wages at Gornik Leczna
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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Omar Janneh, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Bartosz Śpiączka 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑4 defeat, delivered by Bartosz Glik to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Gornik Leczna told Bartosz Biedrzycki something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Filip Szabaciuk damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gornik Leczna may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Gornik Leczna — 7.68
1 for Egzon Kryeziu, marked 7.68, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Match19 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iván Torregrosa, and the manager let it.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Kamil Orlik beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Half-satisfied: Bartosz Glik on the draw
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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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Steady
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 148% of everything Gornik Leczna earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
A point taken on 89 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad2 Nov 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 dugout2 Nov 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.
The dugout2 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.” Bartosz Glik chose the glass-half-full version of 2‑2; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Egzon Kryeziu moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Gornik Leczna than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Gornik Leczna had a different afternoon.
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Steady
Squad26 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Jakub Myszor
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
A point taken on 88 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Adam Deja is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Gornik Leczna has been clear about where Adam Deja stands, which is more than many ever get.
Match24 Oct 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: Bartosz Glik on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 2‑2, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout26 Oct 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Patryk Malamis 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.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Stal Mielec next, and one man in the Gornik Leczna dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Steady
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Gornik Leczna close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $55.6K — a club that wants Seif Darwish enough to be asked twice.
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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The offer went to Stal Mielec this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bartosz Śpiączka, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Omar Janneh is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Gornik Leczna man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Iván Torregrosa was the best thing in any of them.
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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 Gornik Leczna, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $22.2K — a club that wants Kamil Grzelak enough to be asked twice.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A move Hubert Matynia would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Hubert Matynia is living that version at Gornik Leczna, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Gornik Leczna offered $22.0K; Chrobry Głogów said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pogon have kept their man, and Gornik Leczna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bartosz Śpiączka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 23 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.51 — 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.