Marked for Frank Chileshe
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
A move Khaled Tawhid 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. Khaled Tawhid is living that version at Lokomotivi, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad7 Dec 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
August Strömberg: 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.” Lokomotivi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Dennis Amoako 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Frank Chileshe: 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.” Lokomotivi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
6 new faces, and Lokomotivi 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Davit Gvelesiani trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Lokomotivi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Edgard Pérez 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Frank Chileshe 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.