Eric Barrios

Defensive Midfielder - Samtredia
15 Aug 2026
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2 Edition

The Samtredia Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

No thanks: Mate Ghaghvishvili rejects the move

Samtredia had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dinamo Tbilisi, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Samtredia

Eric Barrios and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Aiden Rushenas

Samtredia asked and Telavi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Giorgi Vekua 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Dato Kobiashvili joins the Samtredia first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dato Kobiashvili 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

One of our own: Vakhtang Mikautadze joins the Samtredia first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Vakhtang Mikautadze 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

Aleksandre Shengelia steps up from the Samtredia academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Aleksandre Shengelia 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

Samtredia promote Tornike Daraselia from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tornike Daraselia 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ruben Gauto wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Samtredia can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

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1 Edition

The Samtredia Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

A move Patrick Carvalho would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Patrick Carvalho is living that version at Samtredia, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Giorgi Mchedlishvili stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Giorgi Mchedlishvili and Samtredia agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market3 Aug 2026

As if he never left: Dito Pachulia returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Dito Pachulia is a Samtredia player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Samtredia

Tamaz Makatsaria 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Sioni join the queue for Tsotne Chikovani

Add another name to the list: Sioni have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tsotne Chikovani. The answer from Samtredia has not changed — yet.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Samtredia

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eric Barrios was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief