The Kolkheti Sentinel
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Shalva Burjanadze
67 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolkheti lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Feb 2027
Jacó puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolkheti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Johnatan Cardoso wants to go home
“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 know it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Kolkheti
Vagner Gonçalves Nogueira 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Nektarios Alafakis 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. Nektarios Alafakis is living that version at Kolkheti, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Door shut on Luka Sanikidze
Kolkheti asked and Dila said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Elguja Grigalashvili 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The ambition of Dávisson outgrows Kolkheti early
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Kolkheti buy the years ahead of Nektarios Alafakis
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market Liepaja expected to open talks for Davit Gotsiridze
- The dugout Vagner Gonçalves Nogueira gets picked when it counts
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Wágner's mistake