Slask U20

22 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process
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The Slask Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Slask rebuffed over Lukáš Sadílek

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gornik Zabrze have kept their man, and Slask go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Newertton rejects the move

Slask had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Shakhtar, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Antoni Klimek

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

An offer of $52.0K for Jakub Antczak

Slask have gone to Lech 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Slask

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

Transfer targets

Slask try to borrow Sebastian Musiolik

Bristol City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

5 new faces, and Slask 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

Mateusz Kaminski: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Luka Marjanac'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.

In brief

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The Slask Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Piotr Samiec-Talar scores twice — 9.25

Two goals and a mark of 9.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Transfer targets

Slask rebuffed over Luis Palma

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lech have kept their man, and Slask go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

Jan Jurčec goes up and wins it — 7.94

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 7.94 for the rest of it.

Transfer targets

Slask bid $380.0K for Dominik Holec

The offer went to Piast 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.

Match

Slask find a way past Lechia

Lechia made Slask work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Slask and Lechia in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Words exchanged at Slask

Jan Jurčec 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Ieltsin Camões

Marked 8.71 — 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.

Market

Piotr Szymanski steps up from the Slask academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Piotr Szymanski 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 Slask Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Kewin Komar due for a Slask medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

Slask rebuffed over Justo Giani

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Universidad Catolica have kept their man, and Slask go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Lamine Bâ signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lamine Bâ commits to Slask for another 4 years.

Squad

Timotej Jambor 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.

Match

Slask come up short against Gornik Zabrze

Gornik Zabrze left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Jan Jurčec 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.

Market

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.

The dugout

Mateusz Kaminski faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Mateusz Kaminski after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Ethan Laidlaw is in the works

Slask have made the call to Brentford. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief