The Kolkheti Sentinel
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Emmanuel Boansi
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kolkheti have done the hard part with Dila, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Kolkheti
Guga Palavandishvili and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
An offer of $7.0K for Levan Kakabadze
Kolkheti have gone to Tskhinvali 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Vagner Gonçalves Nogueira 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Door shut on Nikoloz Ugrekhelidze
Kolkheti asked and Dinamo Tbilisi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market11 Jan 2027
Sioni join the queue for Jaba Chakvetadze
Add another name to the list: Sioni have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jaba Chakvetadze. The answer from Kolkheti has not changed — yet.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Caio Amaral is a square peg at Kolkheti
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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Kolkheti and Caio Amaral are talking past each other
“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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Guga Palavandishvili has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kolkheti 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.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Caio Amaral
- Market Rodriguinho placed on the list
- Market The clock does Rodriguinho’s negotiating for him