90 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zaglebie can pretend not to have heard.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA Moscow have kept their man, and Zaglebie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Michalis Kosidis 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.
0‑1 to Korona, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Zaglebie training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleks Ławniczak 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 words a physio says slowly. 106 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.
Two goals and a mark of 8.50 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zaglebie have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
He is 21, he is averaging 7.12, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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.
Tomasz Makowski 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.
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.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zaglebie has been clear about where Damian Dąbrowski stands, which is more than many ever get.
The first defeat in 9 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Podbeskidzie; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
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.
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
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 Robert Piatek left the room before anybody could ask which.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zaglebie has been clear about where Adam Radwański stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Kewin Komar
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.
Newertton, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.22
A mark of 8.22 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.
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
“I watch every Zaglebie game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Rudes runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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.
At 21 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Zaglebie will try not to make too much of it.