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00:00 Welcome to the first episode of "Voice in the Eye".
00:03 This is a program in which the editors of "Voice of Wielkopolski"
00:06 will be focused on the Poznań sport, but also on Wielkopolski.
00:11 We will discuss topics that interest us, that interest you.
00:16 That's why we will always be open to you if you would like to analyze and discuss a given topic.
00:23 In today's first episode, we will talk about the drop in the reserves of Lech Poznań from the second league,
00:30 as well as the situation in the Lech Poznań Academy.
00:33 Let's go!
00:48 Unfortunately, the reserves of Lech Poznań, after 5 years of their presence at the third level of the league,
00:54 are falling from it, from the second league, and with a bang.
00:58 There have been many different moments during these 5 years.
01:01 Of course, the reserves fought for the barrage, they were once in the middle of the table,
01:06 but these last two years have to be counted as unsuccessful.
01:11 The lack of stabilization and reaction to some things, which I will talk about in a moment,
01:16 led to the fact that the reserves of Lech Poznań, after 5 years, are falling from the second league.
01:23 First, let's take a look at the statistics.
01:30 The reserves of Lech Poznań, as you can see here on the board, lost 15 games this season.
01:37 Secondly, they lost the most goals among all teams in the second league.
01:42 There were as many as 50 goals lost.
01:46 And I think that the most interesting statistic, which I will expand a bit,
01:49 is the fact that the reserves of Lech Poznań did not score a goal in 10 games.
01:54 And now I would like to dig into this a little bit.
01:59 In August 2023, after the match with Motor Lublin on August 11,
02:05 I wrote that the reserves of Lech Poznań will not hold out in the second league
02:09 if they do not make the appropriate reinforcements,
02:12 even if they simply do not buy or acquire a new attacker.
02:18 Coach Artur Węska also saw this need,
02:23 who signaled it many times at press conferences.
02:27 And here, too, such a statement from Coach Węski fell.
02:32 "I see the same needs as you, journalists. We can all go to the right people."
02:40 So, Coach Artur Węska went to the right people,
02:45 and these right people said that reinforcements are not necessary,
02:49 that we can rely on Pacławski, who was injured at least twice this season,
02:56 and in his outstanding season, he only scored 4 goals in the second league.
03:02 So I think it's a really huge talent that can be based on,
03:06 and in the next season it will also be a solid foundation for this success.
03:12 And also, time and again, I think the management of the Academy was hoping
03:16 that Artur Sobiech would support Norbert Pacławski in a weaker form.
03:21 And, in general, Artur Sobiech, who spent more time in the sports hall than on the playground,
03:28 could not help this team in any way.
03:33 Going further, Coach Węska signaled for the support that was rejected.
03:43 And in the autumn round, in October, in November,
03:48 there was a period when the reserves had lost 3 in a row.
03:53 They also couldn't reach a set of points from 5 games,
03:58 but let's assume that the end of the autumn round was reasonably decent,
04:02 because the reserves reached 13 points in the last 6 games.
04:07 And you could think, there was a moment, a moment, but a small one,
04:13 that the reserves would fight for the barrage.
04:16 With the note that reinforcements are needed again.
04:21 But unfortunately, the period of break between the autumn and spring rounds came,
04:27 again, Coach Węska signaled that reinforcements are needed.
04:31 And even a small draw did not happen, because Łukasz Norkowski,
04:36 a 24-year-old assistant who already played in Lech Poznań,
04:40 was to be drawn to the second team.
04:43 He wanted to come here, the coach of Lech Poznań's reserves,
04:47 he wanted to get him very much, because he would be a link
04:50 between a younger group of players and the older ones.
04:54 But unfortunately, Lech Poznań's players did not agree to such a move,
04:58 they said that he was unnecessary.
05:01 And the result is what it is.
05:04 I just remind you that Łukasz Norkowski played in the Polonia Bytom team,
05:07 the Polonia that won 3-0 against Lech in the last round.
05:11 Today, Łukasz plays in the third league in the Notec and Czarnków teams.
05:16 And we had a spring round, which, for the good cause,
05:21 was a big misunderstanding.
05:25 Why? We'll talk about it in a moment.
05:28 Another reason why I am not surprised that the reserves fell from the second league
05:35 is the fact that coach Artur Węska often trained in a group of 9, 10, 11 players.
05:40 Of course, there were sometimes young players,
05:44 young players were called to them, but it was quite rare.
05:49 But mainly because a large number of players
05:54 who played in Lech Poznań's reserves trained with the first team.
05:58 She trained with the first team, she played with them at matches,
06:01 but she did not play in them.
06:04 And after these meetings, very often, it was already such a plague,
06:07 it even became a meme that the players were going on trips.
06:11 There was a fact that the players had 3-4 hours to sleep,
06:15 they often slept in the car, going to the Voronek for a match,
06:18 which was after the match of the first team.
06:21 And the players of Lech Poznań decided that this is the right time for regeneration
06:25 and to actually bring something from a given area
06:30 and actually to be able to stand up to the rival.
06:33 It did not happen.
06:36 There was not enough quality here, there was no team at all,
06:39 you could not see the chemistry in the team.
06:43 And the whole reserve team relied solely on individuality.
06:48 And let the fact be an example that at the time when
06:52 both Szymon Pawlowski and Maksymiliana Dziuba were absent,
06:55 the reserves did not win any matches,
06:58 they did not even draw any.
07:00 They all lost and it was very painful.
07:03 So maybe we need to think about this aspect,
07:07 does this team make sense at all?
07:10 If the coach has only 9 players available to train with,
07:15 maybe it would be easier to rent these players for the second league,
07:19 for the first league, and in general to cancel the reserve team?
07:22 Because we cannot expect here from the reserve coach of Lech Poznań
07:26 that he will keep a team that is not a team.
07:30 There are not enough of these players.
07:33 Often there were players from the senior juniors,
07:36 and it ended with the outstanding achievement,
07:39 the survival of the entire advantage from the autumn round,
07:42 and the permission for the Warsaw Legion in the Central Junior League
07:47 to approach Lech Poznań.
07:50 Especially since after today's meeting,
07:53 because we are recording this on Sunday,
07:56 Lech Poznań lost to Wisła Kraków in the drop zone of the Central Junior League,
08:03 4-3.
08:06 But we will come back to this match.
08:09 From this moment on, we will focus on specific cases,
08:17 specific statements, on the elements that failed this season.
08:22 First, saying that it does not matter the sports result,
08:26 but the development of young players,
08:28 the behavior of DNA of Lech Poznań is important,
08:31 is the key to success, is nothing but a worthless,
08:34 ridiculous statement.
08:36 Nothing but worthless, ridiculous, just pathetic.
08:39 And it is because the young players of Lech Poznań
08:43 have had enough of the talk of the Lech Poznań Academy of Directors,
08:47 because they themselves feel that the results must go for the rivalry,
08:52 the results must also go for development.
08:55 If they don't go, they don't drive you.
08:58 And talking here about DNA is really pathetic,
09:01 and it is because the parrots have stronger DNA.
09:04 Parrots live for 390 million years,
09:07 but I believe that if the Lech Poznań Academy will continue to function in this way,
09:11 it may not be there in 10 years, or it may be in a deplorable state.
09:15 And saying here that we are the best academy in the country
09:18 will not change anything at all.
09:20 If this was not enough after this failure with Bytom 0-3 on the way out,
09:29 after this great show at the Bulgarian 2-1 against Koran,
09:34 then in the evening, a certain person,
09:37 who is at the head of the academy,
09:40 at the very tip of the academy,
09:42 called one of the coaches and informed him
09:45 that the player who just arrived to the gate from this match from Bytom
09:49 cannot play in the Sunday match with Wisła Kraków in the Central Junior League,
09:53 despite the fact that he was supposed to play.
09:56 Despite the fact that he was supposed to play.
09:58 The result?
09:59 The juniors lost the match with Wisła Kraków,
10:02 because a certain person gets into the competence of the coaches,
10:05 who end these courses for a reason,
10:07 who analyze the opponent's game for a reason,
10:09 who spend time with young players for a reason.
10:12 For the good of the matter, this is a clear intrusion into the competence.
10:17 This is a clear action to harm this club.
10:20 The moment when someone orders the coach to postpone a given player
10:25 because his contract ends and he does not want to sign a new contract with Lech.
10:29 I wonder why he does not want to sign a new contract with Lech.
10:32 No, this is no longer an important player for us,
10:35 we can push others.
10:37 This is what this development of players is about.
10:39 This is what the development of young players is about.
10:42 And there were a lot of such cases,
10:44 because you really do not have to be Sherlock to find this out.
10:47 This was the case with Tudruj, this was the case with Tomczyk,
10:50 this is the case with other players.
10:53 And in general, the director of the Lech Poznań Academy, Marcin Grubel,
10:56 has an incredible ability to deal with young players for the good of the matter.
11:02 Tomczyk left, Tudruj left, Stachowicz left,
11:05 Olejnik, Wolski, Kukułka will run away in a moment.
11:08 But this is because these players do not want to sign a contract with Lech Poznań.
11:14 They do not want to.
11:16 They do not want to because there is no respect here,
11:20 they do not identify with this club,
11:23 they treat each other like pushovers.
11:26 I am talking about players who left, not who will leave.
11:30 Although I think they will also have a lot to say after the end of the season.
11:35 And such similarities can also be found in other fields.
11:39 Now I will tell you about a certain tweet.
11:45 A certain tweet of the former coach of Lech Poznań, Patryk Kniat,
11:48 who exploded and just had to throw out some things
11:54 after this outstanding show at Bulgarska Street.
11:58 Namely, Patryk Kniat, what he just wrote,
12:01 you can see on the screen.
12:04 Patryk Kniat was the former coach of Lech Poznań.
12:07 His assistant was none other than Marcin Wróbel.
12:11 And here it should be noted that Patryk Kniat has a son.
12:16 He has a son, Jasia, who plays for Lech Poznań Academy.
12:19 This is the year 2007.
12:21 He plays for the U17 team.
12:24 And there may be such a situation,
12:27 because from what I have heard,
12:29 there will be such a situation
12:31 that Jan Kniat will become a new player for the Warsaw League.
12:36 So, just to sum up,
12:38 the ability to extend the contract with young players,
12:42 the ability to create this wonderful atmosphere in Lech Poznań Academy,
12:46 this family, this beautiful, fragrant, wonderful, oh, oh.
12:50 It is not like that.
12:51 It is not like that, ladies and gentlemen.
12:53 And there are even more examples.
12:56 There are even more such situations.
12:59 And now, for a moment, we will go back to June 2023,
13:05 when a certain player of Lech Poznań Academy
13:08 was removed from the second team of Lech Poznań.
13:12 He stopped training with the first team of Lech Poznań.
13:15 And this is because he said that a good idea would be
13:18 to simply go to another, stronger team.
13:21 From what I know from the agent of this player,
13:25 from the agent himself,
13:27 as well as from the sports director of the academy,
13:29 of the club he was going to go to,
13:31 there was a situation
13:33 in which a certain person from Lech Poznań called
13:37 and stated that this player was consuming alcohol
13:40 in the research and development center and also in the academy.
13:44 In this academy, which is supposed to have 60 cameras,
13:47 in which everything is monitored,
13:49 all rooms, of course,
13:51 with the exception of such rooms as the players' rooms.
13:55 So I would like to ask here,
13:58 because in the interview that Hubert Nowacki gave me,
14:05 Hubert Nowacki clearly said this.
14:09 "Today we have 60 cameras in the research and development center.
14:12 Whatever it may sound like, it works preventively.
14:16 It helps all the problematic behaviors of our students
14:19 and, above all, increases their safety.
14:22 Naturally, the players' rooms do not have cameras,
14:25 but in all the rooms together, they do.
14:30 That's what I'm asking here.
14:32 60 cameras. It's impressive.
14:34 Have there been cases where the rules were broken?
14:38 Fortunately, no.
14:40 Currently, the boys' awareness is much greater.
14:44 So I would like to ask here, how was it?
14:47 Did someone actually call the director of the academy of this other club or not,
14:54 informing that the player consumed alcohol in the CBR?
14:58 Because after this situation, after this phone call,
15:01 when the equivalent was to be paid,
15:04 the offer was withdrawn.
15:06 And, for good measure, all these contract negotiations ended in a fiasco.
15:12 So I have a request here and a proposal.
15:16 If this player...
15:18 Mr. Director, I'm addressing you now.
15:21 If this player, who consumed alcohol,
15:23 you probably know who I'm talking about,
15:25 actually consumed this alcohol,
15:28 I would propose to prepare a series of recordings,
15:31 in which, for example, I don't know,
15:33 this player probably had to take the bottles out of his room for a fine.
15:37 I assume that no one cleaned up after him.
15:39 Or some recordings that would simply indicate
15:42 that this alcohol was consumed in the academy.
15:45 Because if it comes to such a situation,
15:48 that in three weeks there will be a published interview with a given player,
15:52 who will say that it was so.
15:54 And even add, who told this director of the academy,
15:58 who said that this player consumed alcohol,
16:01 it can get very, very uninteresting.
16:05 [BANG]
16:09 Coming back to that matter,
16:11 of course, I will send the interview itself to the audience,
16:15 so that Lech can, of course,
16:17 refer to it, write his comment,
16:19 so that it is actually done
16:22 according to the journalistic aesthetics.
16:24 Still, coming back to this topic,
16:27 this player came from a situation
16:29 in which Director Marcin Wróbel
16:31 even after this whole situation
16:35 proposed a contract to this player in a railway station.
16:38 But no wonder, the player himself and the agency
16:41 simply rejected this proposal.
16:44 So, to sum up,
16:46 there is complete chaos in Lech Poznań.
16:49 There is a degringolada,
16:51 which absolutely no one can stop.
16:53 People from the training staff, players,
16:56 they have no positive opinion about the sports director
16:59 and the director of the Marcin Wróbel Academy.
17:03 So, if there will still be such a tendency
17:08 to interfere in someone else's competences,
17:10 not listening to the coaches,
17:13 then this circus will continue to be the best.
17:18 So, if you have several players available
17:21 at the training, 9, 10, 11,
17:24 you don't react to it, you make it harder for him.
17:27 If the coach signals you,
17:29 "Why did you finish this course?"
17:31 that you need one reinforcement,
17:33 you don't do it, you make it harder for him.
17:36 And there were definitely more such difficulties.
17:40 And what will happen next?
17:42 Will someone say, "We made a mistake"?
17:44 I don't think so, but they should.
17:47 The director of the Lech Poznań Academy
17:49 should really come out and say,
17:51 "Yes, we made a mistake,
17:53 not listening to the words of Artur Węski.
17:55 Yes, we made a mistake
17:57 in relation to the young players
17:59 who we told to play with injuries.
18:01 Yes, we made a mistake.
18:03 We apologize.
18:05 We will draw real conclusions from this.
18:07 This should be the answer.
18:09 We will not give such an answer here.
18:13 So, for the moment, it looks like
18:16 Artur Węski is leaving the Lech Poznań reserve team.
18:21 Of course, the second team is left without a coach.
18:25 It is said somewhere in the corridors
18:27 that Grzegorz Wojtkowiak, Hubert Wędzonka,
18:29 is to be this new coach.
18:31 For me, I think the best option
18:35 would be Bartosz Bokiński here,
18:37 if he would, of course, like to take up this task,
18:40 but also Grzegorz Wojtkowiak.
18:42 These are coaches who know
18:44 these players above all,
18:46 but these players also like them
18:49 and simply respect their work with them.
18:52 There were also such voices that
18:54 this coach of the reserve team,
18:56 but it was already two months ago,
18:58 could be Mariusz Rumak.
19:00 I can't imagine that,
19:02 because unfortunately, and I emphasize this,
19:04 I really support this,
19:06 unfortunately, young players have a problem with him.
19:08 So here it would rather not work
19:11 and the approach of these young players
19:13 to this coach,
19:15 in general to football, to competition,
19:17 would rather spoil nothing here.
19:20 So moving on,
19:22 several players will definitely train
19:24 with the first team of the new season,
19:26 playing with Noteć, Czarków,
19:29 with Sokoł, Kleczew, Słynią, Swarzenc,
19:32 in which there are a lot of former players,
19:34 Lecha, Poznań, and sometimes
19:36 it's even worth going to the match at the Units.
19:38 We will probably also hear about the need for continuity,
19:42 about the need to preserve this DNA.
19:44 However, if anything is to change,
19:46 it must change the change of this thinking.
19:49 And if there is no change of thinking,
19:51 then just a given person must change.
19:54 At the moment when the Lecha Poznań Academy
19:57 spends annually on maintaining the Academy itself
20:01 from 2.5 million euros to 4 million euros
20:05 and there are no effects of this,
20:07 because no one will tell me that the drop in reserves
20:09 is a positive effect,
20:11 or that in the Central Junior League
20:13 we lose points for power in matches
20:15 when we should win them,
20:17 is a decent effect.
20:19 And the same is true for the first team.
20:22 Since the term of the director Marcin Wróble,
20:26 who, for good measure,
20:28 joined the first team and was sold for too much money,
20:33 no matter if they achieved something or not.
20:35 But of course, let's face it,
20:36 this is the goal of the Academy,
20:37 to sell the player for as much money as possible
20:39 and this must also be compensated with this maintenance.
20:43 There was no such player.
20:45 For the good measure,
20:46 all the work,
20:47 I'm talking about Zwiak, Kamiński,
20:50 I'm talking about Gumny, about the rest,
20:52 it's all due to the previous directors of the Academy,
20:55 including director Marek Śledzia.
21:00 That's it.
21:01 A lot has to change in this club
21:03 so that we, as the Lecha Poznań community,
21:07 can call the Lecha Poznań Academy
21:10 the best in Poland.
21:11 And if you think we can call it the best in Poland,
21:14 a lot has to change
21:16 so that it is good
21:17 and has a transition to Europe.
21:21 That's all from me.
21:22 This was the first episode.
21:24 Thank you.
21:25 Bye.
21:28 (music)