Marked for Jorge Gonzalez
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market8 Mar 2027
The offer from IK Sirius for Ivan Durdov 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Radu Boboc 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 Bruk-Bet Termalica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Radu Boboc did the work nobody counts — 7.33
13 combined actions and 7.33. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout8 Mar 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
“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.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Igor Strzałek 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
5 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Back issues
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Crisis
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bruk-Bet Termalica can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Bruk-Bet Termalica may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Motor Lublin have kept their man, and Bruk-Bet Termalica go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrián Chovan, and the manager let it.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Jorge Gonzalez ran the middle of the pitch — 6.80
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.80, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Kamil Pestka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Damian Zalewski to a room that had heard them before.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Rafał Kurzawa ran the middle of the pitch — 7.63
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 17 combined actions and a mark of 7.63, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Bruk-Bet Termalica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Masoero 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 players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Damian Zalewski could afford to be generous.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Jakub Branecki 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.
The dugout14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Igor Strzałek’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Bruk-Bet Termalica needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Ivan Durdov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bruk-Bet Termalica know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.09 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Bruk-Bet Termalica did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $445.0K — a club that wants Kamil Pestka enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Wieczysta Kraków 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ivan Durdov commits to Bruk-Bet Termalica for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jakub Branecki 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Durdov
“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.