It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Wisla Krakow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Wisla Krakow did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Wisla Krakow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Roberto Massimo 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.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jakub Krzyżanowski is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
A brace, and Marko Božić takes the afternoon — 9.87
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Marko Božić provided it, and the 9.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A brace, and Ángel Rodado takes the afternoon — 9.62
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ángel Rodado provided it, and the 9.62 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Roberto Massimo 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 Oriol Rosell was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Gornik Leczna scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Ángel Rodado had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Cracovia were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Roberto Massimo 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Oriol Rosell 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 injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Successful dribbles: 17. 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 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.
At 22 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.
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.74, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. Cracovia on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Marko Božić 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Wisla Krakow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oriol Rosell 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.
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. Lechia had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Wisla Krakow will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Two goals and a mark of 9.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Roberto Massimo 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.
6 goals in one match, Marko Božić on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Wisla Krakow and Slask.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Piotr Rogala has, at Wisla Krakow, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oriol Rosell was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Oriol Rosell 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 Roberto Massimo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Frederico Duarte scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Lech, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Sebastian Zalewski to a room that had heard them before.
“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
Somebody else is better right now than Raoul Giger
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.
Successful dribbles: 23. 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 Wisla Krakow this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Wisla Krakow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oriol Rosell 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.
Wisla Krakow asked and Flamengo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Up for the corner, and Kacper Duda delivers — 7.21
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Kacper Duda scored, was marked 7.21, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 12 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Wisla Krakow will try again when the window opens; Gornik Leczna may not be selling by then.
$75.0K was the most the club would pay and Piast 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.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Wisla Krakow have paid $3.8M for Roberto Massimo, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Wisla Krakow asked and Red Bull Salzburg said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Wisla Krakow have gone to Gornik Leczna 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.
“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 Wisla Krakow, and it is not being withdrawn.
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Wisla Krakow had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Levadiakos, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Oriol Rosell 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.
In brief
The terracesWisla Krakow spend $3.8M on the signing the town wanted
Piast go through and Wisla Krakow go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
“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 Wisla Krakow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oriol Rosell was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Wisla Krakow asked and Cesena said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Wiktor Biedrzycki 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.
Wisla Krakow have gone to Gornik Zabrze 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.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at NK Domzale is saying, and nobody at Wisla Krakow is enjoying the guessing.
Marko Božić 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.
$100.0K on the table at Lechia. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Ángel Rodado was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.51. 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oriol Rosell was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Wisla Krakow asked and Olympiacos said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Marked 8.24 — 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.
The offer from Lech for Ángel Rodado was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Marko Božić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ángel Rodado 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 academy exists for exactly this morning. Karol Lewandowski has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Damian Frankowski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Marko Božić 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Wisla Krakow training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ángel Rodado 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.
Wisla Krakow have made the call to Estudiantes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Wisla Krakow have made the call to NK Domzale. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Wisla Krakow, and both men came out saying it was fine.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Wisla Krakow has been clear about where Alan Uryga stands, which is more than many ever get.