Rayne

Central Defender - Samgurali Tskaltubo
1 May 2028
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Marked for Rayne

91 Edition

The Samgurali Tskaltubo Gazette

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match22 Apr 2028

A hiding for Samgurali Tskaltubo

Beaten 0‑4 by Dila, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad24 Apr 2028

A fracture rules Rayne out for 66 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Samgurali Tskaltubo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match24 Apr 2028

Samgurali Tskaltubo are in real trouble now

Position 8, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

The dugout24 Apr 2028

Ryan: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Samgurali Tskaltubo have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings24 Apr 2028

Luiz Miguel runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Words exchanged at Samgurali Tskaltubo

Imeda Ashortia 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.

Match22 Apr 2028

The goals have deserted Samgurali Tskaltubo

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Samgurali Tskaltubo can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad24 Apr 2028

Nika Khorkheli 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.

Boardroom24 Apr 2028

Nobody left the Samgurali Tskaltubo dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

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90 Edition

The Samgurali Tskaltubo Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Apr 2028

A fracture rules Rayne out for 74 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Samgurali Tskaltubo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

Nobody could get near Nika Khorkheli

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Tempers go at Samgurali Tskaltubo

Imeda Ashortia 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.

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

Nothing got past Juba Dvalishvili

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Home is on Edu's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Samgurali Tskaltubo are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Edu wants one last season at home

Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Samgurali Tskaltubo know now that the thought has arrived.

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

Nathan takes the honours

Marked 7.62 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Samgurali Tskaltubo had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout17 Apr 2028

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Vakhtang Kakabadze chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout17 Apr 2028

Rael 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.

In brief

89 Edition

The Samgurali Tskaltubo Gazette

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Apr 2028

Rayne breaks a bone — 82 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Imeda Ashortia in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Samgurali Tskaltubo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings10 Apr 2028

Luiz Miguel beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Noah Moulin gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Noah Moulin has just signed for Samgurali Tskaltubo, and for once the answer mattered.

Player ratings10 Apr 2028

Nothing got past Nikoloz Ugrekhelidze

20 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Words at Samgurali Tskaltubo training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nika Khorkheli 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.

Player ratings10 Apr 2028

Nobody on the pitch touched Vinicius

7.68, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Samgurali Tskaltubo had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Market10 Apr 2028

Samgurali Tskaltubo buy the years ahead of Samuele Tavanti

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.

Market10 Apr 2028

Samgurali Tskaltubo sign Noah Moulin, one for the future

Noah Moulin is 19, and Samgurali Tskaltubo have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

88 Edition

The Samgurali Tskaltubo Gazette

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Apr 2028

The knee: Ryan out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Samgurali Tskaltubo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad3 Apr 2028

A fracture rules Rayne out for 89 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Samgurali Tskaltubo will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings3 Apr 2028

Luiz Miguel beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings3 Apr 2028

Vintage Edu — 7.97

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.97, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market3 Apr 2028

Ryan is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Samgurali Tskaltubo is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Imeda Ashortia signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Imeda Ashortia commits to Samgurali Tskaltubo for another 3 years.

Squad3 Apr 2028

A move Erik Otrísal 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. Erik Otrísal is living that version at Samgurali Tskaltubo, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match1 Apr 2028

Edu the difference as Samgurali Tskaltubo beat Iberia 1999

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Edu. 1‑0 against Iberia 1999, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market3 Apr 2028

Nika Khorkheli is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Samgurali Tskaltubo has been clear about where Nika Khorkheli stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

87 Edition

The Samgurali Tskaltubo Gazette

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad27 Mar 2028

96 days out for Rayne after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Samgurali Tskaltubo will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Ryan damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad27 Mar 2028

Words exchanged at Samgurali Tskaltubo

Imeda Ashortia 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.

Loan watch27 Mar 2028

Nikoloz Tsetskhladze has seen enough of Dinamo Batumi

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Samgurali Tskaltubo, and 3 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad27 Mar 2028

5 new faces, and Samgurali Tskaltubo 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.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

No hiding place for Davit Mujiri

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Davit Mujiri, and the manager let it.

Looking ahead27 Mar 2028

Irakli Komakhidze faces his old club

Iberia 1999 next, and one man in the Samgurali Tskaltubo dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

The manager makes Juba Dvalishvili a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Samgurali Tskaltubo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

Arsen Siukaev asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

4 Edition

The Samgurali Tskaltubo Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match19 Aug 2026

Samgurali Tskaltubo out of the cup

Rustavi ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market24 Aug 2026

Gean Rodrigues puts it in writing

“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 Samgurali Tskaltubo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Salih Malkoçoğlu will not be coming to Samgurali Tskaltubo

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Trabzonspor is saying, and nobody at Samgurali Tskaltubo is enjoying the guessing.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Wellissol

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Samgurali Tskaltubo

Luiz Miguel 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Samgurali Tskaltubo

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

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Lautaro Torres

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

The dugout24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Arsen Siukaev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arsen Siukaev, and the manager let it.

Squad24 Aug 2026

This league is too small for Rayne

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Samgurali Tskaltubo will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

In brief