The Sapovnela Courier
Squad4 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Marlon out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sapovnela will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market4 Jan 2027
Bruninho hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sapovnela can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Real improvement from Saba Nioradze at Sapovnela
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Saba Nioradze is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Endika stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Endika and Sapovnela agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Home is on Luís Cetin's mind
“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; Sapovnela are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Tskhinvali tell Sapovnela: Otar Kvilitaia is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Sapovnela ask about Otar Kvilitaia
A loan enquiry to Tskhinvali: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Mikheil Kiteishvili is in the works
Sapovnela have made the call to Zugdidi. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Endika 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.
In brief
- Market Endika brings the grey hairs Sapovnela lacked
- Market Sapovnela and Luca Grazzini are talking past each other
- Boardroom Open for business: Sapovnela enter the window