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Squad14 Sep 2026
Wojciech Słomka damages knee ligaments — 38 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 38 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Podbeskidzie
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Podbeskidzie are no longer polite ones.
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad14 Sep 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 Podbeskidzie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gornik Zabrze have kept their man, and Podbeskidzie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kornel Osyra 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.
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Squad7 Sep 2026
46 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Podbeskidzie lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Podbeskidzie
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Podbeskidzie are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Podbeskidzie, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 20 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Podbeskidzie until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Oskar Wójcik 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 targets7 Sep 2026
Podbeskidzie asked and Standard Liege said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match5 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Cracovia, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Wojciech Słomka
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Podbeskidzie lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Podbeskidzie can tell you which week it ends in.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Racing Genk, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market31 Aug 2026
The chase for Michał Litwa ended with $240.0K changing hands and Gornik Leczna out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Podbeskidzie asked and Jagiellonia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kacper Gach 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.
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Match19 Aug 2026
Lech go through and Podbeskidzie go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match22 Aug 2026
0‑3 against Lechia, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
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 Podbeskidzie, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Podbeskidzie's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Podbeskidzie has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Kacper Gach 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kacper Gach 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 dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Konrad Forenc
“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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Podbeskidzie training over how hard people work
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Boardroom
Doors closed at Podbeskidzie
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Pogon for Marcin Biernat was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match15 Aug 2026
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kacper Gach 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 Podbeskidzie this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout17 Aug 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kamil Sochań 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 dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Jan Linetty left the room before anybody could ask which.
Market17 Aug 2026
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan move for Kamil Jóźwiak is in the works
Podbeskidzie have made the call to Jagiellonia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 17 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑4 to Lech, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcin Biernat commits to Podbeskidzie for another 1 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Podbeskidzie asked and Haladas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kacper Gach 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jakub Szymanski has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mateusz 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jakub Zielinski has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jan Szymanski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dalibor Takáč and Podbeskidzie agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marcin Biernat and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. FK Senica have kept their man, and Podbeskidzie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kamil Sochań was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Podbeskidzie, another week without a signature from Konrad Forenc.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Podbeskidzie 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 dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Jan Linetty to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Oskar Wójcik is in the works
Podbeskidzie have made the call to Werder Bremen. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.