81 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolkheti-1913 Poti lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kolkheti-1913 Poti have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
“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; Kolkheti-1913 Poti are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Zurab Chavchanidze 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 a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Lokomotivi spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
119 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kolkheti-1913 Poti lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kolkheti-1913 Poti have done the hard part with Samgurali Tskaltubo, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Zurab Chavchanidze 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.
$49.0K on the table at Lokomotivi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
“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 Kolkheti-1913 Poti know it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tim Oloko-Obi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Juan Asprilla has his answer from Kolkheti-1913 Poti; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Kolkheti-1913 Poti have gone and got theirs early.
135 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kolkheti-1913 Poti lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Juba Dvalishvili is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolkheti-1913 Poti 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Tbilisi have kept their man, and Kolkheti-1913 Poti go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Kolkheti-1913 Poti lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Juba Dvalishvili is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolkheti-1913 Poti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.