Jankowski: Pathology Factory

The confusion around Pogoni Szczecin reminded us all circuses around a akin operation in Wisła Kraków. The operation that ended for the club was tragic. 1 of the most well-titled Polish clubs is the second level of the competition.
Modern professional football thus increasingly becomes a feeding point for millionaires and billionaires. More or little real. But does this ball truly benefit from it?
The club owners are a bit like the dictators. They can be good, but they can be bad. And small can be done with them until they lose their powers of action. In the strongest leagues, there has actually been no large deal so far, although there have besides been any failed projects, like the 1 with Hertha Berlin who landed in the 2nd Bundesliga after entering the Big-City-Club phase.
However, it is little affirmative in leagues that are little celebrated and prestigious, including in Polish. The pursuit of Szczecin is bad luck After adventures with Antoni Bird and Sabri Bekdas, now Nilo Effiori and Alex Haditaghi entered the arena. But, yes, is that a deficiency of luck or the ability to draw conclusions? The past of Iranian Canadian investment is not optimistic. He's capable of abrupt twists, and that's no good, especially erstwhile the club is as indebted as the Porters.
"The Rich, Private Owner". How wonderful that sounds. individual who has money, individual who can manage them unfetteredly, is not based on public resources, etc. But at the same time, individual who might get bored of it, individual who feels that the investment is not paying off, so you gotta get free of it, individual who can't be controlled, and finally: individual who has no work to the local environment, so does not feel peculiar work for the destiny of the club that takes over.
Should football, which is the most popular athletics in Poland, be devoted to managing specified charlatans? Should we put hope in them for the good of our clubs? Well, temptation is big. There would not be a large Vistula without the Cupial era, but there would besides be debris left after Cupial. There would be no evidence transfer of Adrian Mierzejewski without the stubbornness of Józef Wojciechowski, but he besides left Polonia in a dire state without a license. The question of whether national football is better is whether it is better for ups and downs or "moderate but stable".
Times are hard to exclude a private initiative from football. But I'm certain it's worth rethinking another forms of club financing. possibly in general the structure of their gross and expenditure. In Poland nobody truly took care of it so far, so all fewer years we have here stories of miracle workers, usually without a happy ending. And it's not like there's no anticipation of hazard reduction. In Germany, we have at least a regulation blocking the acquisition of the control package over clubs by specified fairy tale writers with (often imaginary) billions. any request that it be abolished, claiming that it creates a ceiling for Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund, others point to the circumvention of the rules by RB Leipzig, TSG Hoffenheim or inactive masterful of the erstwhile year Bayer Leverkusen, but it does supply any stableness to the ball. Finally, Hertha Berlin's failed task did indeed fall out of the league, but there is no tragedy in the form of full bankruptcy and debts for eternal default.
It is advanced time the Polish football office thought about legal solutions protecting clubs and their fans from the risks associated with magicians from the healing of finances and large successes, which end in degradation and reset in the 4th league. besides many brand names have already suffered. We don't know if the next 1 just showed up.
Tomasz Jankowski
photo profile X Pogoni Szczecin
Think Poland, No. 13-14 (30.03-6.04.2025)