Damian Dąbrowski

Defensive Midfielder - Zaglebie
18 Apr 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Damian Dąbrowski

32 Edition

The Zaglebie Herald

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fabricio

83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zaglebie lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Zaglebie count the cost of losing Jakub Ligocki

23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Ivo Grbić 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 Zaglebie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Michał Nalepa signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michał Nalepa and Zaglebie agree another 2 years.

The dugout

No hiding place for Damian Dąbrowski

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Damian Dąbrowski, and the manager let it.

Market

Cyprian Popielec is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zaglebie has been clear about where Cyprian Popielec stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

Back issues
31 Edition

The Zaglebie Herald

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Fabricio damages knee ligaments — 91 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 91 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.

Market

Aleks Ławniczak asks to leave Zaglebie

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Zaglebie

Ivo Grbić 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.

Squad

Kacper Potulski 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Jakub Sypek

“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.

Squad

Jakub Sypek wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Zaglebie will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

In brief

11 Edition

The Zaglebie Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Luka Lučić damages knee ligaments — 146 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 146 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.

Player ratings

Michalis Kosidis scores twice — 8.68

Two goals and a mark of 8.68 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

A goal and an assist for Kajetan Szmyt — 7.90

Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.90 beside his name.

Squad

Josip Ćorluka 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 Zaglebie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Zaglebie see off Pogon

Three points for Zaglebie, 4‑3 the final word against Pogon in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Match

Michalis Kosidis among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Michalis Kosidis on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Zaglebie and Pogon.

Squad

Michał Nalepa 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.

Player ratings

Mihael Mlinarić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Damian Dąbrowski

“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.

In brief

6 Edition

The Zaglebie Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Jasmin Burić asks to leave Zaglebie

“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.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 22 signed and 7 gone

That is the business done at Zaglebie until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Zaglebie say no — this time

The offer from Cracovia for Jasmin Burić 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Zaglebie

Ivo Grbić 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kamil Jóźwiak

Zaglebie asked and Jagiellonia 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 targets

Deadline beats Zaglebie to Stjepan Davidović

The clock did what Korona would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.

Match

Zaglebie come up short against Wisla Krakow

Wisla Krakow left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Damian Dąbrowski

“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.

The dugout

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 0‑1 Rafal Piatek left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief