A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Odra Opole will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adrian Liber was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Ivan Metlushko 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.
At 34, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
The team at the top of the table next, and the honest measure of where this side actually is. Anybody can beat the club below them; the question is what happens against Wisla Krakow.
Wisla Krakow next, and one man in the Odra Opole dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Lisandro Semedo 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Erjon Hoxhallari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Polonia Warszawa told Daniel Dudziński something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kacper Kostorz signs something — a contract at Polonia Warszawa or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Polonia Warszawa can pretend not to have heard.
1 for Daniel Dudziński, marked 7.85, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Łukasz Zjawiński. 3‑2 against Puszcza Niepołomice, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Polonia Warszawa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The phone has started ringing about Souleymane Cissé again, and this time the name on the line is Stal Mielec. Polonia Warszawa are listening politely and promising nothing.
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Antonio Leal has, at Polonia Warszawa, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $28.4K — a club that wants Adrian Jurkiewicz enough to be asked twice.
Polonia Warszawa have gone to ŁKS Łódź with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Antonio Leal and Polonia Warszawa agree another 3 years.
Polonia Warszawa asked and Farul Constanța said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Lisandro Semedo 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.
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Michał Paluch is living that version at Odra Opole, and it tends to show in the first month.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Michał Paluch and Odra Opole agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Odra Opole training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrian Liber 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 name of Daniel Dudziński has come up in conversations Odra Opole were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Olivier Sukiennicki 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.
Odra Opole have made the call to Shakhtar. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Ivan Metlushko is 20, and Odra Opole have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dave Gnaase and Polonia Warszawa agree another 3 years.
Polonia Warszawa have made the call to Shakhtar. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateusz Jeleń 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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Mykyta Vasin is 20, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.