Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
A brace, and Mikael Ishak takes the afternoon — 8.99
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mikael Ishak provided it, and the 8.99 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lech they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Rubén Duarte and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Rodríguez 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.
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
7.96, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lech they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Jakub Antczak has agreed terms with Piast for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Michał Kozajda has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Lech have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lech people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Two goals and a mark of 8.97 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lech can pretend not to have heard.
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Leo Bengtsson had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.88 for the rest of it.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lech is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Lech ran out of time with Raków Częstochowa. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
The clubs have shaken hands with Raków Częstochowa; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lech lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lech can pretend not to have heard.
Odra Opole paid $1.7M and Lech took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Rubén Duarte 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.
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
“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; Lech are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Lech people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Two goals and a mark of 8.19 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Mariusz Kutwa has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Lech have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Lech asked and Motor Lublin said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lech lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Chrobry Głogów waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Lech is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Potenza had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lech can pretend not to have heard.
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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Up for the corner, and Terry Yegbe delivers — 7.80
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Terry Yegbe scored, was marked 7.80, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
4 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lech lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Two goals and a mark of 8.78 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lech have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lech this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
48 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Lech lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
7.97, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Rodríguez 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.
Óliver 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Rodríguez 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.
Nobody at Lech will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Chances created: 10. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager has not finished forgetting Mateusz Skrzypczak's mistake
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Filip Wilak
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Adrian Lis: 3 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
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.
Marked 8.00 — 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.
Two goals and a mark of 8.83 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
“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 Lech, and it is not being withdrawn.
Rubén Duarte was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
At 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Mikael Ishak scored in the 86th minute, GKS Katowice had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Lech took the lot.
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Rubén Duarte and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Patrik Wålemark was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.01. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lech will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.88 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Rafal Lewandowski could afford to be generous.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rubén Duarte is on it.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lech will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Plamen Andreev 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 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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Lech told Gísli Gottskálk Þórðarson something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Marcin Kamiński’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Lech needing him to play as if none of it matters.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Pablo Rodríguez signs something — a contract at Lech or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lech will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.97 for the rest of it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lech this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Rafal Lewandowski, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
In brief
The dugoutÓliver has become a man the manager trusts
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lech will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lech can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lech this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 7.10, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Lech who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
The first defeat in 4 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Korona; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lech will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lech have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Óliver 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Rodríguez 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.
7.59, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Lech had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Rafal Lewandowski, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lech will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lech this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Filip Wilak has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mikael Ishak. 1‑0 against Piast, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lech will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Rubén Duarte was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad12 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Lech 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.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Óliver is on it.
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Lech told Yannick Agnero something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Radosław Murawski’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Lech needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lech will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
1 for Gustav Berggren, marked 7.80, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.
Rubén Duarte and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yannick Agnero has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Marked 8.48 — 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 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 manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Filip Jagiełło has his answer from Lech; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lech will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Plamen Andreev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“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 Lech know it.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Allahyar Sayyadmanesh, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Plamen Andreev's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Plamen Andreev 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.
Nobody at Lech will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Mikael Ishak was the best thing in any of them.
Raków Częstochowa next, and one man in the Lech dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lech will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Score against anybody else and it is a goal. Score against them and it is a story with your name in it for a decade, and Lech supporters have already started telling it.
Lech 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.
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Mikael Ishak in the middle of it, and Legia unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Rodríguez 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Lech 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.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lech this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Lech ran out of time with Chrobry Głogów. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
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.
Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. Legia on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Lech know which stage they are at.
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $6.4M has been paid because Óliver is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Lech and Chrobry Głogów have settled on $430.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
5 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.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Viktoria Plzen keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Óliver was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $6.4M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CSKA Moscow have kept their man, and Lech go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Lech have gone to Monterrey 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.
The clubs have shaken hands with Miedź Legnica; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Luis Palma was one of the reasons people came, and $4.6M does not replace that by itself.
“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 Lech, and it is not being withdrawn.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $682.5K — a club that wants Mateusz Bochnak enough to be asked twice.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lech this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Lech asked and Club America said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Lech have paid $4.7M for Rubén Duarte, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
The shirt still fits. Marcin Kamiński is back at Lech, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $4.7M for Rubén Duarte, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 89. Arka Gdynia had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Antoni Kozubal 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.
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. Lech will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Lech asked and Oviedo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Lech have gone to Pumas UNAM 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.
Add another name to the list: ŁKS Łódź have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Luis Palma. The answer from Lech has not changed — yet.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $153.6K — a club that wants Kajetan Szmyt enough to be asked twice.
Plamen Andreev 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.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustav Berggren 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.
Lech asked and Universitatea Craiova said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.