Daniel Kvartskhava

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Dinamo Tbilisi
21 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process
65 Edition

The Dinamo Tbilisi Gazette

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Rui Monteiro is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Timur Melekestsev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Loan watch

Halid Doltmourziev keeps scoring at Saburtalo

21 appearances away from home and 10 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Market

Ayrton Páez linked with a move away

The name of Ayrton Páez keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Tbilisi say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch

Iyed Haj Khalifa first choice at Giresunspor

10 starts and a season average of 6.55. The loan is doing exactly what it was arranged to do.

Squad

The manager comes out for Aleksandre Kalandadze

Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Aleksandre Kalandadze has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.

In brief

Back issues
55 Edition

The Dinamo Tbilisi Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Dinamo Tbilisi up to position 3

39 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Dinamo Tbilisi turn down Zugdidi for Rui Monteiro

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Daniel Kvartskhava: 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.

Match

Dinamo Tbilisi find a way past Sapovnela

Sapovnela made Dinamo Tbilisi work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market

Shota Diakonidze attracts admirers

The name of Shota Diakonidze has come up in conversations Dinamo Tbilisi were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Giorgi Kharaishvili 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.

Squad

Timur Melekestsev finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Dinamo Tbilisi have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Market

The Nikoloz Ugrekhelidze 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.

Squad

Luka Tsulaia knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Tbilisi, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

47 Edition

The Dinamo Tbilisi Gazette

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for Dinamo Tbilisi

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Tbilisi are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Mikheil Makatsaria 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

The manager makes an example of Giorgi Loria

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market

Shukura are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Dinamo Tbilisi will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match

Honours even between Dinamo Tbilisi and Merani

1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market

The Nikoloz Ugrekhelidze 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