Da Rocha

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9 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Da Rocha

18 Edition

The Dinamo Tbilisi Gazette

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Dinamo Tbilisi book their European place

Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.

Match

Dinamo Tbilisi refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 19 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

The dugout

Iyed Haj Khalifa says Dinamo Tbilisi went back on their word

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at Dinamo Tbilisi

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

Boardroom

87% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Tbilisi

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

Home is on Lucas Flores'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; Dinamo Tbilisi are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Dinamo Tbilisi Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Giorgi Kharebashvili: 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.” Dinamo Tbilisi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Jaba Kankava 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 Dinamo Tbilisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

Giorgi Kharaishvili is still paying for one afternoon at Dinamo Tbilisi

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout

Giorgi Kukhianidze 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.

The dugout

Giorgi Gvasalia 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 Giorgi Gvasalia is on it.

Market

The Algassime Bah talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Tbilisi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief