Marked for Adam Ryczkowski
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 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 Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Legia do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Legia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Pierre Nsame 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bartosz Kapustka. 1‑0 against Slask, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.76. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad14 Sep 2026
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Bartosz Kapustka has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Legia had a different afternoon.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Legia
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Legia are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a goal for Legia
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 6 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market7 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Legia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Jędrzejczyk 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.
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 Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Kobylak, and the manager let it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Legia and Lech cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Lech came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Legia, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market7 Sep 2026
Legia have made Tudor Butucel available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 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 Legia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Legia
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match29 Aug 2026
The goals have deserted Legia
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Legia can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad31 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 Legia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Legia have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Wojciech Urbański 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Artur Jędrzejczyk, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.00, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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 Legia, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Legia's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Legia has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
Legia cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Legia
Ottó Hindrich 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Legia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Legia training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artur Jędrzejczyk 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Legia and Zaglebie cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Zaglebie came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.