The words a physio says slowly. 106 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.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Gareji Sagarejo know it.
Gabriel Silva 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gui Campana 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.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Fabian Volpi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gareji Sagarejo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
The dugoutBeka Gugberidze has become a man the manager trusts
62 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gareji Sagarejo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Giorgi Gogsadze is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Gareji Sagarejo know it.
Kakha Makharadze 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.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gareji Sagarejo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The words a physio says slowly. 70 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gareji Sagarejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
78 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gareji Sagarejo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Luka Tolordava 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.
85 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gareji Sagarejo lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Gareji Sagarejo offered $2.1M; Dinamo Batumi 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.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gareji Sagarejo they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Gabriel Silva 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gui Campana 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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Vakhtang Mikautadze 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.
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. Gareji Sagarejo will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gareji Sagarejo know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gareji Sagarejo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Gareji Sagarejo have gone to Dinamo Batumi with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 27 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Gareji Sagarejo have paid $720.0K for Warley, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.3M — a club that wants Luka Kapianidze enough to be asked twice.
Gabriel Silva 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Gareji Sagarejo spend $720.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $720.0K for Warley, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Johnatan Cardoso 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.
“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 Torpedo Kutaisi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 23 signed and 5 gone
That is the business done at Torpedo Kutaisi until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Gareji Sagarejo paid $720.0K and Torpedo Kutaisi took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The phone has started ringing about Demetre Buliskeria again, and this time the name on the line is Samtredia. Torpedo Kutaisi are listening politely and promising nothing.
Gabriel Justino 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.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Mateo Stamatov is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
101 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gareji Sagarejo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“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 Gareji Sagarejo, and it is not being withdrawn.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $389.4K — a club that wants Daniel Suško enough to be asked twice.
The offer went to Samtredia this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The chase for Brian Lopez ended with $120.0K changing hands and Samtredia out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gui Campana 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Vitória have kept their man, and Gareji Sagarejo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
$590.0K on the table at Torpedo Kutaisi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
The chase for Tornike Kirkitadze ended with $70.0K changing hands and Dinamo Batumi out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gareji Sagarejo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gui Campana 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.
Gareji Sagarejo asked and Figueirense 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 system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The words a physio says slowly. 108 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.
The offer from Dinamo Tbilisi for Felipe Pires was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
7.72, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Dinamo Batumi paid $740.0K and Torpedo Kutaisi took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
The phone has started ringing about Warley again, and this time the name on the line is Gareji Sagarejo. Torpedo Kutaisi are listening politely and promising nothing.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Batumi have kept their man, and Torpedo Kutaisi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
Transfer targetsA loan move for Taras Mykhavko is in the works
116 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Torpedo Kutaisi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.0M — a club that wants Armel Zohouri enough to be asked twice.
Nodar Lominadze 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Merani have kept their man, and Torpedo Kutaisi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Add another name to the list: Lokomotivi have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Luka Rekhviashvili. The answer from Torpedo Kutaisi has not changed — yet.
15 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
123 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Torpedo Kutaisi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Davit Skhirtladze has, at Torpedo Kutaisi, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The offer went to Iberia 1999 this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Coritiba keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Mohamed Cherif has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nodar Lominadze and Torpedo Kutaisi agree another 4 years.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Torpedo Kutaisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Kolkheti-1913 Poti pay $170.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.