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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to GKS Tychy's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at GKS Tychy has to find a result from somewhere.
Match31 Oct 2026
GKS Tychy cannot find the net
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Bartosz Salamon 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
Jakub Mądrzyk 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 138% of everything GKS Tychy 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout2 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Grzegorz Lewandowski after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Uneasy
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for GKS Tychy
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted GKS Tychy
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at GKS Tychy can tell you which week it ends in.
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 Tychy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Luís Silva 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at GKS Tychy
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.19 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, GKS Tychy had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Łasicki, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Grzegorz Lewandowski was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the GKS Tychy dressing room was either.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Crisis
Match14 Oct 2026
The cup run ends for GKS Tychy
0‑1 against Widzew Łódź, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bartosz Salamon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted GKS Tychy
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at GKS Tychy can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 34 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for GKS Tychy is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Krzysztof Zielinski, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at GKS Tychy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igor Łasicki 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.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at GKS Tychy
Bartosz Salamon 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
“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 Tychy are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at GKS Tychy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jakub Mądrzyk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. GKS Tychy told Arkadiusz Gajewski something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Oskar Repka’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Igor Łasicki knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at GKS Tychy, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at GKS Tychy. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market12 Oct 2026
Cracovia watched Max Pawłowski again at the weekend, and this time they did not bother hiding it. Clubs only stop hiding when they want the price to start moving.
In brief
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Looking ahead
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The dugout
The manager comes out for Oskar Repka
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bartosz Salamon 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 160% of everything GKS Tychy 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Paweł Łysiak for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. GKS Tychy will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Luís Silva 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. GKS Tychy will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market5 Oct 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at GKS Tychy, another week without a signature from Bartosz Salamon.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Grzegorz Lewandowski after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Abdul Mendy 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. 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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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Oskar Repka 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 Tychy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Paweł Łysiak did the work nobody counts — 7.02
13 combined actions and 7.02. 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.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
He is 19 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Stal Rzeszów made GKS Tychy work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 8.38 — 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at GKS Tychy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Igor Łasicki was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 new faces, and GKS Tychy 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Grzegorz Lewandowski on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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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Uneasy
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Oskar Repka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at GKS Tychy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Mądrzyk 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match19 Sep 2026
GKS Tychy caught on 94 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Znicz Pruszków scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Grzegorz Lewandowski after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Kamil Głogowski
“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 dugout21 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Steady
Market14 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at GKS Tychy
Oskar Repka 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 targets14 Sep 2026
Zaglebie wanted more than $16.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Luís Silva 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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marcin Listkowski. 1‑0 against Chrobry Głogów, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market14 Sep 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Grzegorz Lewandowski on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Uneasy
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 18 signed and 6 gone
That is the business done at GKS Tychy 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $16.7K — a club that wants Filip Kocaba enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Oskar Repka 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 offer went to Zaglebie this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pardubice have kept their man, and GKS Tychy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Igor Łasicki 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Oliver Stefánsson has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
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Crisis
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 GKS Tychy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and GKS Tychy did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $16.7K — a club that wants Dion Gallapeni enough to be asked twice.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for GKS Tychy
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around GKS Tychy are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at GKS Tychy
Luís Silva 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 Tychy offered $16.0K; Widzew Łódź said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jakub Mądrzyk 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 targets31 Aug 2026
GKS Tychy asked and AS Saint-Etienne said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Steady
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 Tychy, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Slask come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and GKS Tychy did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $16.7K — a club that wants Wojciech Kamiński enough to be asked twice.
Squad24 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 GKS Tychy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
$13.0K on the table at Widzew Łódź. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at GKS Tychy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luís Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
GKS Tychy asked and Lech said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maksymilian Stangret, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
$1.7M. No player has ever cost GKS Tychy more, and expectation arrives with him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luís Silva 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 Tychy this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$13.0K on the table at Korona. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
GKS Tychy spend $1.7M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.7M for Oskar Repka, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
GKS Tychy asked and Polissia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Nico Adamczyk has come up in conversations GKS Tychy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Igor Łasicki 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
7.98, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. GKS Tychy had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Mohamed Djetei behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. GKS Tychy will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
GKS Tychy have gone to Raków Częstochowa 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
GKS Tychy 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 $2.0M — a club that wants Oskar Repka enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luís Silva and GKS Tychy agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at GKS Tychy
Luís Silva 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
A move Abdul Mendy would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Abdul Mendy is living that version at GKS Tychy, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at GKS Tychy training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Mądrzyk 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
Luís Silva 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Filip Klich 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.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Marcin Listkowski and GKS Tychy agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at GKS Tychy
Marcin Listkowski 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at GKS Tychy
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luís Silva was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Southampton have kept their man, and GKS Tychy go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 23 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Gornik Leczna, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Marcin Listkowski’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at GKS Tychy
11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.