The Shukura Herald
Match5 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Shukura
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market7 Sep 2026
Aleksandre Katamadze 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 The request is on a desk at Shukura, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mikel Kaloshi 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 Shukura this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Shukura training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guga Palavandishvili is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Luka Chaganava
“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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Shukura pick somebody else ahead of Mikhail Philippov
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match5 Sep 2026
Irakli Giritiladze rescues a point for Shukura
It needed Irakli Giritiladze to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Kolkheti, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Market7 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Shukura and Saba Kvirkvelia
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Shukura, another week without a signature from Saba Kvirkvelia.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Irakli Giritiladze changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Shukura had a different afternoon.
In brief
- Market Shukura bring in Davit Mikautadze on loan
- Player ratings Piotr Pyrdoł runs at them all day
- Market Luka Meskhidze leaves for nothing