Marked for Michał Chrapek
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Crisis
Squad1 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market1 Feb 2027
Andrej Lukić hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Ruch close the window on a squad of their own making
0 in and 1 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.
Match30 Jan 2027
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Ruch
Arkadiusz Milik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Chrapek 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 targets1 Feb 2027
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.
Match30 Jan 2027
Legia take the points off Ruch
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Ruch
Sebastian Mrowca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michał Chrapek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Ruch asked and Legia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michał Chrapek, and the manager let it.
Match16 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tomasz Szymanski after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan move for Shola Ogundana is in the works
Ruch have made the call to Dynamo Kyiv. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Sigma Olomouc: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Steady
Match9 Jan 2027
Ruch taken apart
1‑4 to Cracovia, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Ruch asked and Korona said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Gornik Leczna, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Chrapek 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 dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Przemysław Szymiński, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Ruch pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
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Crisis
Market28 Dec 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 Ruch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 18 days on the sidelines for Piotr Ceglarz, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Chrapek 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Lechia take the points off Ruch
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Tomasz Szymanski to a room that had heard them before.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Szymon Szymański’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Ruch needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
Chastening afternoon for Ruch
A 0‑4 beating by Slask was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ruch can pretend not to have heard.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Arkadiusz Milik 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michał Chrapek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Kacper Potulski
“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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Ruch dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 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 0‑4 defeat, delivered by Tomasz Szymanski to a room that had heard them before.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Beaten 4 times, 2 saves, and an afternoon that will go on his record whether it was his fault or the defence’s. It is the quiet unfairness of the position.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.97, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Kacper Dyduch: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ruch have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Ruch
Arkadiusz Milik 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Three points for Ruch, 3‑1 the final word against Lech in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Arkadiusz Milik at his very best
Marked 9.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ruch.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ruch settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Lech spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jakub Jendryka and Ruch agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑1, already talking about the next one.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Kacper Potulski at 19 — 7.62
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kacper Potulski did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match5 Dec 2026
At last: Ruch win one
9 matches without a win, and then this, against Pogon. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Ruch
Arkadiusz Milik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Chrapek 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
Three points for Ruch, 1‑0 the final word against Pogon in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Mateusz Rosół
“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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Arkadiusz Milik was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Jakub Świerczok is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Kacper Potulski named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Kacper Potulski is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Ruch keep their word to Denis Ventúra
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Shuma Nagamatsu's mistake
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
48 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Ruch
Sebastian Mrowca 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Michał Chrapek 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Ruch
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match28 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Ruch against Zaglebie
0‑2 to Zaglebie, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout30 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tomasz Szymanski after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Crisis
Market16 Nov 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.14 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match16 Nov 2026
Ruch sink to position 13
13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match14 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Michał Chrapek, 34, rolls back the years — 8.06
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.06 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Ruch and Jagiellonia, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Michał Chrapek 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.
In brief
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The dugout
Sebastian Mrowca gets it from the manager
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Match
Halfway: Ruch sit in position 13
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Ruch
Arkadiusz Milik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michał Chrapek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match7 Nov 2026
Piast take the points off Ruch
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.30 — 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.
The dugout9 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marko Kolar beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tomasz Szymanski after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Sebastian Mrowca asks for a word with the manager
“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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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Ruch's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ruch has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Wisla Krakow, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrej Lukić, and the manager let it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Ruch
Something was said to Arkadiusz Milik and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout2 Nov 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Tomasz Szymanski to a room that had heard them before.
Squad2 Nov 2026
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and Ruch will feel it on Saturday.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Arkadiusz Milik 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Chrapek 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 dugout26 Oct 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.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Wisla Krakow next, and one man in the Ruch dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Ruch. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Aleksander Komor trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ruch may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Ruch
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ruch are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Ruch
Arkadiusz Milik 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Chrapek 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Marko Kolar scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Legia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ruch are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tomasz Szymanski after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Andrej Lukić 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 Andrej Lukić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Ruch
Sebastian Mrowca 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Michał Chrapek 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Ruch
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑3 Tomasz Szymanski left the room before anybody could ask which.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Jakub Jendryka
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Jakub Jendryka has come out of that comparison in the side, and Ruch have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Elías Pérez, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 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
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Ruch
Sebastian Mrowca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michał Chrapek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
Cracovia left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastian Mrowca, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Sep 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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Tomasz Szymanski to a room that had heard them before.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Gornik Leczna in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Ruch would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jakub Świerczok has written the date down.
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
A hiding for Ruch
Beaten 0‑3 by Lechia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Ruch
Arkadiusz Milik and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Michał Chrapek 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AZ have kept their man, and Ruch go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Andrej Lukić 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.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Ruch
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Steady
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Ruch close the window on a squad of their own making
16 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
No thanks: Idrissa Guèye rejects the move
Ruch had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Udinese, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michał Chrapek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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.
Squad7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
10 new faces, and Ruch 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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksander Komor, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Tomasz Szymanski was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Ruch dressing room was either.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Ruch
0‑6 against Cracovia, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.11, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ruch say no — this time
The offer from Pogon for Martin Konczkowski 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Cracovia leaves Ruch explaining themselves
0-6, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Market24 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 Ruch, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ruch this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Ruch and Cracovia in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michał Chrapek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ruch
Sebastian Mrowca 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Ruch training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michał Chrapek 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 targets17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Aleksander Komor
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Ruch will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout17 Aug 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Rodina: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Southampton have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Jakub Bielecki
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Marko Kolar takes the afternoon — 8.78
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marko Kolar provided it, and the 8.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Podbeskidzie have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Daniel Szczepan. The answer from Ruch has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Michał Chrapek and Ruch agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Ruch
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michał Chrapek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Ruch
Daniel Szczepan 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Szymon Szymański, and the manager let it.
Match1 Aug 2026
A point taken on 92 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Ruch, another week without a signature from Michał Chrapek.