17 Aug 2026
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Process
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The Pogon Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Kamil Grosicki pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Filip Čuić signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Filip Čuić commits to Pogon for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Pogon

Kamil Grosicki 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.

Market

Korona join the queue for Jan Biegański

Add another name to the list: Korona have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jan Biegański. The answer from Pogon has not changed — yet.

Squad

Martin Olsson 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

Patryk Dziczek runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Nobody at Pogon has picked up the phone to Attila Szalai

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Benjamin Mendy

A mark of 6.93, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market

Still no ink between Pogon and Benjamin Mendy

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Pogon, another week without a signature from Benjamin Mendy.

In brief

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The Pogon Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

11 seasons of Adam Frączczak

430 appearances across 11 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Pogon know what they have.

Squad

Kellyn Acosta stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Kellyn Acosta and Pogon agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Kellyn Acosta 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 Pogon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

José Pozo runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words at Pogon training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Attila Szalai 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 terraces

Pogon supporters have found a favourite in Filip Čuić

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Filip Čuić 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.

Match

Pogon see off Podbeskidzie

Three points for Pogon, 1‑0 the final word against Podbeskidzie in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Pogon and Fredrik Ulvestad are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

Nobody at Pogon has picked up the phone to Kellyn Acosta

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief