The unbeaten run reaches 14. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A brace, and Andi Zeqiri takes the afternoon — 8.56
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Andi Zeqiri provided it, and the 8.56 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.50 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bartłomiej Drągowski, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Dec 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.
Steve Kapuadi 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.
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
“I watch every Widzew Łódź game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Wisla Krakow runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
At 21 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.
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad14 Dec 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
“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.
“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 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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
$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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.