Marked for Mateusz Bartolewski
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Crisis
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer from Arka Gdynia for Michał Kozajda 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Albert Zarówny: 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.” Chrobry Głogów have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 2 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Chrobry Głogów 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Mateusz Bartolewski 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kamil Małota, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Caelan Avenell commits to Chrobry Głogów for another 4 years.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
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 1‑2 Grzegorz Bednarek left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match19 Dec 2026
13 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Sebastian Bonecki damages knee ligaments — 50 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 50 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
10 saves: Dawid Arndt was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match21 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Chrobry Głogów
Position 18 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match19 Dec 2026
6 matches without a goal for Chrobry Głogów
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.
Squad21 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 Chrobry Głogów this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kacper Tabiś was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 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 Grzegorz Bednarek left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
12 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastian Bonecki
58 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chrobry Głogów lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match12 Dec 2026
0‑4 against Stal Mielec, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Chrobry Głogów may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match12 Dec 2026
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Chrobry Głogów can tell you which week it ends in.
Market14 Dec 2026
Kamil Grzelak has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Chrobry Głogów they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Mateusz Bartolewski and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match14 Dec 2026
7 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Radosław Bąk
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The dugout
Dawid Arndt has become a man the manager trusts
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chrobry Głogów lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 1‑5 beating by Ruch was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market2 Nov 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 Chrobry Głogów can pretend not to have heard.
Match31 Oct 2026
7 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
An order from above at Chrobry Głogów: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Chrobry Głogów and Ruch in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mateusz Bartolewski 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 288% of everything Chrobry Głogów earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Chrobry Głogów lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Chrobry Głogów lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match26 Oct 2026
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match24 Oct 2026
6 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Odra Opole, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Chrobry Głogów training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Radosław Bąk 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.
Squad26 Oct 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 Chrobry Głogów this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Kamil Małota
“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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Something was said to Sondre Liseth and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Chrobry Głogów lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 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 Chrobry Głogów, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Jakub Lis delivers — 7.11
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Jakub Lis scored, was marked 7.11, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match12 Sep 2026
GKS Tychy made Chrobry Głogów work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Radosław Bąk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Mateusz Bartolewski 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.80 on the card, and the Chrobry Głogów support went home talking about one name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Chrobry Głogów are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Looking ahead
A test against the best for Chrobry Głogów
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Dawid Polkowski