“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gornik Zabrze can pretend not to have heard.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ondřej Zmrzlý was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Half the programme played, position 4, 30 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout14 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 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Maciej Grosicki to a room that had heard them before.
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gornik Zabrze may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ondřej Zmrzlý 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.
Michał Rakoczy 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.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Gornik Zabrze, and 5 appearances in 15 say he has earned the hearing.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Maciej Grosicki after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Position 2, 29 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
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.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Malthe Højholt's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Erik Prekop has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Gornik Zabrze, and both men came out saying it was fine.
A brace, and Janis Antiste takes the afternoon — 8.74
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Janis Antiste provided it, and the 8.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Everything agreed with Wisla Krakow, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Maksym Khlan has left for Raków Częstochowa in a $1.1M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Wojciech Kamiński and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
13 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.
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Kacper Urbański, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.89
A mark of 7.89 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lukáš Sadílek and Gornik Zabrze agree another 4 years.
Kacper Urbański 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ondřej Zmrzlý 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.