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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Maxim Voronov is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Slask
Petr Schwarz 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Petr Schwarz
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match3 Oct 2026
Slask get the job done against Piast
A 1‑0 win over Piast, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Patryk Sokołowski 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Slask.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Petr Schwarz 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 Slask this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oskar Mielcarz is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Miłosz Kozak
“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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Wisla Krakow made Slask work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
50 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jorge Yriarte damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Slask
Petr Schwarz 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Luka Marjanac
“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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jorge Yriarte damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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 Slask this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Sep 2026
Alexandr Koksharov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Legia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad14 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
Words at Slask training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patryk Sokołowski 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
4 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
5.51 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 5.63. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jorge Yriarte
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slask lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match5 Sep 2026
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Alexandr Koksharov scored in the 86th minute, Ruch had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Slask took the lot.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Alexandr Koksharov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.76
A mark of 7.76 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Slask
Petr Schwarz 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 terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Alexandr Koksharov 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alexandr Koksharov. 1‑0 against Ruch, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Luka Marjanac 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
A place in the month's best eleven for Łukasz Gerstenstein
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Łukasz Gerstenstein has come out of that comparison in the side, and Slask have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jorge Yriarte
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Slask lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
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 Slask, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Agustín Fernández has just signed for Slask, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Petr Schwarz 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 Slask this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
The fee is $120.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. All Boys drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Slask have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match29 Aug 2026
Gornik Leczna made Slask work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Crisis
Match22 Aug 2026
A hiding for Slask
Beaten 0‑4 by Cracovia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Slask
2‑3 against Gornik Zabrze, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Hubert Śliczniak out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slask will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Alexandr Koksharov did not need any: 7.60, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Slask's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Slask has to find a result from somewhere.
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 Slask this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Przemysław Banaszak, and the manager let it.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Łukasz Gerstenstein has come up in conversations Slask were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Hubert Śliczniak out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Slask will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Petr Schwarz 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 Slask this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Piotr Samiec-Talar, and the manager let it.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Podbeskidzie, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market17 Aug 2026
Kamil Rutowski is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Slask has been clear about where Kamil Rutowski stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 5.73, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
A hiding for Slask
Beaten 2‑5 by Lechia, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Timotej Jambor takes the afternoon — 8.01
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Timotej Jambor provided it, and the 8.01 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Petr Schwarz 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 Slask this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Aug 2026
Timotej Jambor among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Timotej Jambor on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Slask and Lechia.
The terraces10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Petr Schwarz, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Michał Mokrzycki and Slask agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Slask dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market10 Aug 2026
48 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.
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Crisis
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 32 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Petr Schwarz and Slask agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Slask
Petr Schwarz 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Gornik Zabrze, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Lamine Bâ
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Patryk Sokołowski 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Lamine Bâ's contract
49 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Slask has been clear about where Hubert Muszyński stands, which is more than many ever get.