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Crisis
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Sebastian Moder has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at GKS Katowice can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Match6 Mar 2027
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.
Match6 Mar 2027
7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at GKS Katowice can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and GKS Katowice know it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Ammar Ramadan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alan Czerwiński commits to GKS Katowice for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Jesse Bosch 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Pogon left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Eman Marković did the work nobody counts — 6.73
11 combined actions and 6.73. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
In brief
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Player ratings
Erik Jirka beats them one at a time
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Maciej Rosołek back under a manager who knows him
Back issues
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The terraces1 Mar 2027
Anger at GKS Katowice spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Pressure builds in the GKS Katowice boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match27 Feb 2027
6 matches without a win for GKS Katowice
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around GKS Katowice are no longer polite ones.
Match27 Feb 2027
6 matches without a goal for GKS Katowice
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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; GKS Katowice are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Bosch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateusz Wdowiak, and the manager let it.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Gornik Zabrze to sit and watch. I want to come back to GKS Katowice and fight for my place.” 9 appearances in 27 matches say the rest.
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Match20 Feb 2027
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Erik Jirka
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Feb 2027
5 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Marius Olsen and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
0‑2 to Zaglebie, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout22 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 0‑2 Sebastian Moder left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Maciej Rosołek back under a manager who knows him
The new man at GKS Katowice has worked with Maciej Rosołek before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Adam Zreľák gets it from the manager
“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.
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Match15 Feb 2027
23 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad15 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at GKS Katowice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match13 Feb 2027
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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Jesse Bosch 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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
GKS Katowice asked and Wieczysta Kraków said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match13 Feb 2027
Korona left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alan Czerwiński, and the manager let it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Market8 Feb 2027
Märten Kuusk hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what GKS Katowice can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” GKS Katowice have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ammar Ramadan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market8 Feb 2027
As if he never left: Maciej Rosołek returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Maciej Rosołek is a GKS Katowice player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Bosch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match6 Feb 2027
3 matches without a goal for GKS Katowice
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
GKS Katowice asked and Stal Rzeszów said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.52 on the card, and the GKS Katowice support went home talking about one name.
In brief
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The dugout
Maciej Rosołek back under a manager who knows him
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Squad
The formation has left Maciej Rosołek behind
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 1 gone
That is the business done at GKS Katowice 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Zaglebie come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and GKS Katowice did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Ammar Ramadan 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 targets1 Feb 2027
GKS Katowice asked and Nyíregyháza said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match30 Jan 2027
0‑1 to Cracovia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateusz Wdowiak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Market25 Jan 2027
“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 GKS Katowice, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market25 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
GKS Katowice had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Shakhtar, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Bosch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match23 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Loan watch25 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Gornik Zabrze to sit and watch. I want to come back to GKS Katowice and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 22 matches say the rest.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Match16 Jan 2027
There were 87 minutes on the clock and Piast had all but banked the point. Football rarely reads the room, and GKS Katowice did not stop to explain themselves.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
No thanks: Denys Popov rejects the move
GKS Katowice had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dynamo Kyiv, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad18 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at GKS Katowice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Bosch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match16 Jan 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ilya Shkurin. 2‑1 against Piast, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. GKS Katowice have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Market11 Jan 2027
“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 GKS Katowice, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Marius Olsen 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sparta Prague have kept their man, and GKS Katowice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Erik Jirka runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match9 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout11 Jan 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 0‑1 Sebastian Moder left the room before anybody could ask which.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan move for Denys Popov is in the works
GKS Katowice have made the call to Dynamo Kyiv. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market11 Jan 2027
A conversation is coming this week. GKS Katowice will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Match2 Jan 2027
9 matches without defeat, and then Lechia. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; GKS Katowice are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Erik Jirka runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Marius Olsen 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 GKS Katowice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Motor Lublin have kept their man, and GKS Katowice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match2 Jan 2027
1‑2 to Lechia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sebastian Moder after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Uneasy
Match26 Dec 2026
It had gone 9 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match26 Dec 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
Loan watch28 Dec 2026
“I did not go to Gornik Zabrze to sit and watch. I want to come back to GKS Katowice and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 18 matches say the rest.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
7.47, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. GKS Katowice had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
9 matches without a win for GKS Katowice
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around GKS Katowice are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match19 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, GKS Katowice do not lose
8 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.
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 GKS Katowice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mateusz Wdowiak was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match19 Dec 2026
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 93. Raków Częstochowa had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Match19 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
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Match9 Dec 2026
The small margins put GKS Katowice out
Out, 1‑1 to Lechia, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match12 Dec 2026
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Rafał Strączek: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from Dawid Kudła
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match12 Dec 2026
Whatever happens, GKS Katowice do not lose
7 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 Dec 2026
Ammar Ramadan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Bosch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match14 Dec 2026
Half the programme played, position 14, 15 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
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Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dawid Kudła commits to GKS Katowice for another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Match5 Dec 2026
It needed Ammar Ramadan to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Gornik Zabrze, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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 ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Eman Marković 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dawid Kudła and GKS Katowice agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch30 Nov 2026
“I watch every GKS Katowice game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Gornik Zabrze runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Marked 7.22. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Sebastian Moder chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksander Paluszek, and the manager let it.
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Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
4 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Marius Olsen 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Late, late show earns GKS Katowice a point
Minute 96, against Legia, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Eman Marković
“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.
Match21 Nov 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sebastian Moder after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Mateusz Wdowiak asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” GKS Katowice may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Marius Olsen 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Legia in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Marius Olsen talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. GKS Katowice know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
A one-man rearguard from Dawid Kudła
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jesse Bosch 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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Erik Jirka runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout9 Nov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Sebastian Moder chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Market9 Nov 2026
No place for Märten Kuusk in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Märten Kuusk has his answer from GKS Katowice; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Gornik Zabrze to sit and watch. I want to come back to GKS Katowice and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 10 matches say the rest.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sebastian Moder after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Märten Kuusk, and the manager let it.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Pogon came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Damian Rasak’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and GKS Katowice needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Crisis
Match26 Oct 2026
Position 17, 9 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
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 GKS Katowice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jesse Bosch 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Eman Marković
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and GKS Katowice are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Steady
Match14 Oct 2026
Gornik Zabrze are out and GKS Katowice go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.79, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad19 Oct 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ammar Ramadan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Erik Jirka
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A muscle injury and 16 days out for Alan Czerwiński
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. GKS Katowice will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ammar Ramadan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to GKS Katowice.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Ammar Ramadan at his very best
Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at GKS Katowice.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 26 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Maciej Kikolski is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jan Piatek has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The decline has begun for Borja Galán
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 33 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for GKS Katowice is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mateusz Wdowiak, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Zaglebie in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ammar Ramadan’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Lukas Klemenz asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Mateusz Marzec out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason GKS Katowice will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match4 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for GKS Katowice
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around GKS Katowice are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and GKS Katowice know it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at GKS Katowice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Bosch 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.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I watch every GKS Katowice game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Erik Jirka beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match4 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Korona leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Sebastian Moder was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the GKS Katowice dressing room was either.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
42 days out for Mateusz Marzec after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. GKS Katowice will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to GKS Katowice's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Katowice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jesse Bosch 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Eman Marković 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Sebastian Moder after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ammar Ramadan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for GKS Katowice
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Mateusz Marzec out for 57 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason GKS Katowice will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Bosch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sebastian Buksa has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Jagiellonia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and GKS Katowice are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sebastian Moder after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Erik Jirka runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 65 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 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 GKS Katowice, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 22 gone
That is the business done at GKS Katowice 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ammar Ramadan 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eman Marković was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Lukas Klemenz’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and GKS Katowice needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Maciej Rosołek asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Crisis
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Piast, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 73 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Grzegorz Rogala has gone, the accounts have $1.1M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Lechia for Maciej Rosołek 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Widzew Łódź paid $1.1M and GKS Katowice took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jesse Bosch 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 targets31 Aug 2026
GKS Katowice asked and Pogon said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Sebastian Moder after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
$4.9M. No player has ever cost GKS Katowice more, and expectation arrives with him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Borja Galán takes the afternoon — 8.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Borja Galán provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
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 GKS Katowice, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
GKS Katowice had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dynamo Kyiv, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marius Olsen 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Ammar Ramadan from DAC Dunajska Streda for $4.9M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Bosch was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. KuPS have kept their man, and GKS Katowice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Crisis
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Lechia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. GKS Katowice have done the hard part with DAC Dunajska Streda, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market17 Aug 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. GKS Katowice have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Widzew Łódź for Kacper Łukasiak 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $650.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Widzew Łódź drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jesse Bosch 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 GKS Katowice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
GKS Katowice spend $650.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $650.0K for Maciej Kikolski, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
GKS Katowice have gone to Widzew 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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $333.8K — a club that wants Lucas Piazón enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jesse Bosch commits to GKS Katowice for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marius Olsen 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jesse Bosch 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Zaglebie paid $110.0K and GKS Katowice took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Erik Jirka
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Ilya Shkurin gets it from the manager
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. GKS Katowice have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Raków Częstochowa, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Pogoń Grodzisk Mazowiecki for Maciej Rosołek 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marius Olsen commits to GKS Katowice for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jesse Bosch 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Damian Rasak 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the GKS Katowice dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Jesse Bosch asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.