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Steady
Match28 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Widzew Łódź do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Osman Bukari beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Osman Bukari 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.
Match28 Nov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jusuf Gazibegović 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.46 on the card, and the Widzew Łódź support went home talking about one name.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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 dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ricardo Visus
“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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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match21 Nov 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Widzew Łódź did not have in the autumn.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Osman Bukari 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 Widzew Łódź this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Carlos Isaac was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adam Ratajczyk and Widzew Łódź agree another 3 years.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Spartak Trnava to sit and watch. I want to come back to Widzew Łódź and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Adam Ratajczyk
“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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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 dugout23 Nov 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Adam Ratajczyk
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Osman Bukari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Widzew Łódź training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jusuf Gazibegović 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Widzew Łódź, and 3 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Bruk-Bet Termalica next, and one man in the Widzew Łódź dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Carlos Isaac talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Widzew Łódź know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Adam Ratajczyk knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adam Ratajczyk trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Steve Kapuadi wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Widzew Łódź have no good answer.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ángel Baena has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ángel Baena has written the date down.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
11 starts and an average of 6.48. He went there to play and he is playing, which is the only thing a loan was ever for.
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Upbeat
Match7 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Widzew Łódź
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Osman Bukari 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christopher Cheng commits to Widzew Łódź for another 4 years.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christopher Cheng was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Krzysztof Jozwiak was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Widzew Łódź dressing room was either.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match7 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Widzew Łódź?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Lech? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market9 Nov 2026
The Emil Kornvig talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Widzew Łódź know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
Roman Vantukh breaks a bone — 14 days out
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Widzew Łódź do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
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.
Match31 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Szymon Czyż’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Widzew Łódź.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Widzew Łódź training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Isaac 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Steve Kapuadi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.59 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Widzew Łódź had the best player on the pitch.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Osman Bukari
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Osman Bukari has come out of that comparison in the side, and Widzew Łódź have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Krzysztof Jozwiak kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
Roman Vantukh breaks a bone — 22 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Osman Bukari 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 Widzew Łódź this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Widzew Łódź do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Osman Bukari’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Widzew Łódź.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Widzew Łódź training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jusuf Gazibegović 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 ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Osman Bukari at his very best
Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Widzew Łódź.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Spartak Trnava to sit and watch. I want to come back to Widzew Łódź and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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.” Krzysztof Jozwiak, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Roman Vantukh out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Widzew Łódź will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match14 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 88th, and GKS Tychy spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Osman Bukari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jusuf Gazibegović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Wisla Krakow to sit and watch. I want to come back to Widzew Łódź and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
36 days out for Roman Vantukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Widzew Łódź will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Osman Bukari 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Widzew Łódź training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlos Isaac 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Widzew Łódź
18 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Emil Kornvig talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Widzew Łódź know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mariusz Fornalczyk’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Widzew Łódź needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
4 appearances at Dugopolje and the goals keep coming. Widzew Łódź are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Next up on the road: Korona, position 3. The supporters who go will talk about it all week and the ones who do not will check their phones at ten to five.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
43 days out for Roman Vantukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Widzew Łódź will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Osman Bukari 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match3 Oct 2026
Cracovia made Widzew Łódź work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Widzew Łódź training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jusuf Gazibegović 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
200 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Osman Bukari was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.12. 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.
The dugout5 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.” Krzysztof Jozwiak, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Roman Vantukh breaks a bone — 51 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match26 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Widzew Łódź
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Widzew Łódź are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Osman Bukari 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 Widzew Łódź this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Andi Zeqiri beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Widzew Łódź
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I watch every Widzew Łódź game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Spartak Trnava runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.18. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ricardo Visus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Krzysztof Jozwiak chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
60 days out for Roman Vantukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Widzew Łódź will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Osman Bukari beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Widzew Łódź
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Widzew Łódź are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Osman Bukari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Carlos Isaac 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 7.62 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Widzew Łódź had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Krzysztof Jozwiak chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout21 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Adam Ratajczyk dropped after a run of poor form
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.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Roman Vantukh out for 67 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Widzew Łódź will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
$26.0K was the most the club would pay and Wisla Krakow were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jusuf Gazibegović 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Roman Vantukh 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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Adam Ratajczyk
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andi Zeqiri’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Roman Vantukh breaks a bone — 74 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
Juljan Shehu hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Widzew Łódź can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Widzew Łódź close the window on a squad of their own making
18 in and 25 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $27.8K — a club that wants Alan Uryga enough to be asked twice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Osman Bukari 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
An offer of $26.0K for Alan Uryga
Widzew Łódź have gone to Wisla Krakow 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Widzew Łódź training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jusuf Gazibegović 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
18 new faces, and Widzew Łódź 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.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
84 days out for Roman Vantukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Widzew Łódź will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Istra 1961 waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Widzew Łódź is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market31 Aug 2026
Daniel Gryzio hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Widzew Łódź can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
Obolon come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Widzew Łódź did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Osman Bukari 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 Widzew Łódź this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The town asked, and Widzew Łódź paid $1.1M
Grzegorz Rogala was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $1.1M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
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Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
Roman Vantukh breaks a bone — 91 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Osman Bukari beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 30. 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 clubs have shaken hands with GKS Katowice; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Sebastian Bergier had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $1.5M sale of Fran Álvarez
He is going to Gornik Leczna, the club has $1.5M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Gornik Leczna pay $1.5M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Osman Bukari and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
99 days out for Roman Vantukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Widzew Łódź will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Widzew Łódź people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Widzew Łódź — 7.78
1 for Steve Kapuadi, marked 7.78, 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The chase for Igor Drapiński ended with $780.0K changing hands and Piast out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at KAA Gent is saying, and nobody at Widzew Łódź is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Osman Bukari 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 targets17 Aug 2026
$340.0K was the most the club would pay and GKS Katowice were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad10 Aug 2026
106 days out for Roman Vantukh after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Widzew Łódź will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Djurgarden come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Widzew Łódź did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Spartak Subotica had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $368.0K — a club that wants Kacper Łukasiak enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Osman Bukari and Widzew Łódź agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$340.0K on the table at GKS Katowice. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Osman Bukari 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 Widzew Łódź this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market3 Aug 2026
Dubrava come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Widzew Łódź did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Widzew Łódź — 7.55
1 for Emil Kornvig, marked 7.55, 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Osman Bukari 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Przemysław Wiśniewski was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Zaglebie have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Maciej Kikolski. The answer from Widzew Łódź has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Daniel Gryzio commits to Widzew Łódź for another 4 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
A goal on 93 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
17 new faces, and Widzew Łódź 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.