GKS Tychy U20

23 Nov 2026
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Process
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The GKS Tychy Post

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Piotr Krawczyk out for 128 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason GKS Tychy will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A falling-out at GKS Tychy

Oskar Repka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

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 dugout

No hiding place for Maksymilian Stangret

“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.

The dugout

GKS Tychy keep their word to Marcel Kalemba

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Looking ahead

Arkadiusz Gajewski faces his old club

Polonia Warszawa next, and one man in the GKS Tychy dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

The Max Pawłowski story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Max Pawłowski signs something — a contract at GKS Tychy or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Daniel Rumin has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Daniel Rumin has written the date down.

Squad

The training reports on Max Pawłowski are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

In brief

Back issues
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The GKS Tychy Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Piotr Krawczyk out for 135 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason GKS Tychy will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

6 matches without a win for GKS Tychy

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around GKS Tychy are no longer polite ones.

Match

6 matches without a goal for GKS Tychy

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.

Player ratings

Marcin Listkowski beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Max Pawłowski

“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.

Match

Slask take the points off GKS Tychy

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

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.

The dugout

Grzegorz Lewandowski answers for it

“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.

In brief

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2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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.

Match

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 ratings

Nobody could get near Marcin Listkowski

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at GKS Tychy

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Match

Puszcza Niepołomice take the points off GKS Tychy

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Mohamed Djetei 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.

The dugout

Grzegorz Lewandowski faces the questions

“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.

In brief

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26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

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.

Match

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.

Squad

Bartosz Salamon 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Marcin Listkowski takes the honours

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 dugout

No hiding place for Igor Łasicki

“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 dugout

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 ratings

Piotr Krawczyk beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

In brief

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The GKS Tychy Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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.

Squad

A falling-out at GKS Tychy

Bartosz Salamon and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

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 dugout

Jakub Mądrzyk 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.

Match

Ruch take the points off GKS Tychy

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The decline has begun for Damian Kądzior

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.

Squad

Krzysztof Zielinski out for 20 days

The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Krzysztof Zielinski, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Piotr Krawczyk

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

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.

In brief

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The GKS Tychy Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The step up is real for Jakub Mądrzyk

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Home is on Mohamed Djetei's mind

“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.

Squad

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 dugout

A promise honoured for Arkadiusz Gajewski

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.

Market

The Oskar Repka question follows GKS Tychy around

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 dugout

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 dugout

The manager makes Marcin Szpakowski a promise

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.

Market

Another notebook out for Max Pawłowski

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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5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at GKS Tychy

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

This league is too small for Bartosz Salamon

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.

Market

Still no ink between GKS Tychy and Bartosz Salamon

“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 dugout

Grzegorz Lewandowski on the point

“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 dugout

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 ratings

Max Pawłowski runs at them all day

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.

In brief

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The GKS Tychy Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

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 ratings

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 terraces

One of their own: Max Pawłowski

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.

Match

GKS Tychy find a way past Stal Rzeszów

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 ratings

A masterclass from Noel Niemann

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

Grzegorz Lewandowski has his say

“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 dugout

GKS Tychy pick somebody else ahead of Piotr Krawczyk

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.

In brief

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21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Maksymilian Stangret says GKS Tychy went back on their word

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at GKS Tychy

Oskar Repka and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

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 ratings

Marcin Listkowski in the eights

A performance of 8.26 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

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.

Match

GKS Tychy and Znicz Pruszków take a point apiece

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 dugout

Grzegorz Lewandowski on the point

“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 dugout

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 dugout

Igor Łasicki does not fit this one

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.

In brief

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14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tobiasz Kubik asks to leave GKS Tychy

“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.

Squad

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 targets

GKS Tychy baulk at the price for Filip Kocaba

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.

Squad

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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Tobiasz Kubik

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.

Match

Marcin Listkowski the difference as GKS Tychy beat Chrobry Głogów

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 ratings

Marcin Listkowski in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market

GKS Tychy buy the years ahead of Carlos Torres

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 dugout

Grzegorz Lewandowski has his say

“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.

In brief

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7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Kacper Kołotyło asks to leave GKS Tychy

“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.

Boardroom

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.

Boardroom

GKS Tychy go back to the board over Filip Kocaba

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.

Squad

Tempers go at GKS Tychy

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 targets

GKS Tychy bid $16.0K for Filip Kocaba

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 targets

GKS Tychy rebuffed over Kparobo Arierhi

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

Marcel Błachewicz makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Squad

Oliver Stefánsson is no longer first choice

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.

In brief

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The GKS Tychy Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Kacper Wełniak puts it in writing

“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.

Market

Miedź Legnica 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.

Boardroom

GKS Tychy go back to the board over Dion Gallapeni

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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 targets

No deal for Dion Gallapeni at that price

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.

Squad

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 targets

Door shut on Marten-Chris Paalberg

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.

Match

Wisla Krakow take the points off GKS Tychy

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief

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24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Marcel Błachewicz puts it in writing

“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.

Market

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.

Boardroom

GKS Tychy go back to the board over Wojciech Kamiński

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.

Squad

Marcin Listkowski 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 targets

GKS Tychy make their move for Dion Gallapeni

$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.

Squad

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 targets

Door shut on Wojciech Mońka

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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Jakub Mądrzyk

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 dugout

No hiding place for Maksymilian Stangret

“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.

In brief

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17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

GKS Tychy break the bank for Oskar Repka

$1.7M. No player has ever cost GKS Tychy more, and expectation arrives with him.

Squad

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 targets

GKS Tychy make their move for Wojciech Kamiński

$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 terraces

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 targets

Door shut on Ihor Krasnopir

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.

Market

Nico Adamczyk attracts admirers

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.

Squad

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 ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Marcin Listkowski

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.

Squad

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.

In brief

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10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.7M for Oskar Repka

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 targets

An offer of $650.0K for Maciej Kikolski

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.

Boardroom

GKS Tychy go back to the board over Oskar Repka

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.

Squad

Luís Silva signs on for more

“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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Market

Filip Klich steps up from the GKS Tychy academy

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.

In brief

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The GKS Tychy Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Marcin Listkowski signs on for more

“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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 targets

GKS Tychy rebuffed over Dylan Moody

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 terraces

One of their own: Marcel Błachewicz

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.

Match

GKS Tychy get the job done against Gornik Leczna

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 ratings

Nobody could get near Damian Kądzior

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

49 months and counting on Marcin Listkowski

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.

Squad

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.

In brief