From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Zaglebie, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Sep 2026
Pogon come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zaglebie did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Jakub Sypek gets it from the manager
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Levente Szabó did the work nobody counts — 7.88
9 combined actions and 7.88. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Zaglebie 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Zaglebie game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Gornik Zabrze runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match12 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Zaglebie
Dominik Gregorski 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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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zaglebie can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Philadelphia Union is saying, and nobody at Zaglebie is enjoying the guessing.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 9 out at Zaglebie
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 9 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Zaglebie asked and Ruch said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market7 Sep 2026
The phone has started ringing about Jasmin Burić again, and this time the name on the line is Pogon. Zaglebie are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Paul Mukairu named player of the month
The award goes to Paul Mukairu, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Tomasz Makowski has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Paul Mukairu named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Paul Mukairu is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adam Radwański, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Zaglebie and Philadelphia Union have settled on $6.3M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Zaglebie pay Pogon $4.1M for a proper upgrade
Pogon did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $4.1M for Paul Mukairu, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The town asked, and Zaglebie paid $4.1M
Paul Mukairu was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $4.1M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Market31 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Josip Ćorluka has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Zaglebie.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The formation has left Paul Mukairu behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Zaglebie will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Yakuba, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Zaglebie that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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Crisis
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 45. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put Zaglebie out
Out, 0‑2 to Lechia, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Josip Ćorluka 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 Zaglebie can pretend not to have heard.
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gornik Zabrze have kept their man, and Zaglebie go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Legia left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$4.1M on the table at Pogon. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Zaglebie and Legia have settled on $530.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
No deal for Jason Lokilo at that price
Zaglebie offered $740.0K; Piast said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Zaglebie
Rafał Gikiewicz 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Zaglebie, 1‑0 the final word against Ruch in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.00 — 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Zaglebie
6 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.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$740.0K on the table at Piast. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $796.2K — a club that wants Jason Lokilo enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Zaglebie have done the hard part with Pogon, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Melero 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Zaglebie asked and Cracovia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robert Grosicki 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jakub Frankowski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robert Klich 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Maciej Szymanski is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sebastian Kowalczyk and Zaglebie agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rafał Gikiewicz 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
A goal on 87 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
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
Still no offer on the table, and Josip Ćorluka’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Zaglebie had the best player on the pitch.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to KAA Gent: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Match1 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.