Marked for Reifit
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market16 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guram Goshteliani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Iberia 1999 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Lucas Possignolo 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Matheuzinho gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matheuzinho is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A door opens for Reifit
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
59 days out for Giorgi Makaridze after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Iberia 1999 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market9 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vahid Selimović will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Iberia 1999 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Lucas Possignolo 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matheus Jussa, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Iberia 1999 are still strangers to each other
7 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Lokomotivi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Iberia 1999 and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Wages eat 85% of everything Iberia 1999 earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nobody at Iberia 1999 will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
67 days out for Giorgi Makaridze after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Iberia 1999 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The Iberia 1999 board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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 Iberia 1999 know it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cesinha was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nikoloz Dadiani is on it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
“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; Iberia 1999 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Giorgi Makaridze 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Lucas Possignolo 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guram Goshteliani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Iberia 1999 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“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; Iberia 1999 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Lucas Possignolo 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Akaki Giunashvili is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jemal-Giorgi Jinjolava 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Matheuzinho has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Iberia 1999 will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market12 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Iberia 1999 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Giorgi Makaridze and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Cesinha 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.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
Wages eat 100% of everything Iberia 1999 earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Iberia 1999 are still strangers to each other
16 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Iberia 1999 game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lokomotivi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jemal-Giorgi Jinjolava is on it.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Matheus Jussa keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Iberia 1999 say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Iberia 1999 would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
In brief
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The dugout
Reifit has been promised minutes
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on Mohamed Cherif
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Triumph
Match30 Sep 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Matheuzinho obliged against Samtredia. 4‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Iberia 1999.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nikoloz Dadiani, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.10
A mark of 8.10 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match30 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Iberia 1999 have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A goal and an assist for Amiran Dzagania — 7.83
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.83 beside his name.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Possignolo 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“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; Iberia 1999 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Amiran Dzagania 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 terraces5 Oct 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
In brief
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The dugout
Reifit gets it from the manager
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Player ratings
Paata Ghudushauri was on a different afternoon to everybody else
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Match
No time for Samtredia to settle