Augusto

Central Defender - Lokomotivi
6 Jan 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Augusto

22 Edition

The Lokomotivi Post

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Boniphanseo Phiri out for 37 days

37 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Lokomotivi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

The step up is real for Boniphanseo Phiri

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Tempers go at Lokomotivi

Luka Nozadze 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.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Lokomotivi Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Boniphanseo Phiri damages knee ligaments — 106 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 106 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at Lokomotivi

Wendel Barros 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.

Squad

Augusto 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 Lokomotivi know it.

In brief

5 Edition

The Lokomotivi Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Boniphanseo Phiri 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 Lokomotivi can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Gonzalo Córdoba due for a Lokomotivi medical

Everything agreed with Mitre, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Luka Nozadze 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

No deal for Ilia Gulisashvili at that price

Lokomotivi offered $37.0K; Gareji Sagarejo said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Augusto stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Augusto and Lokomotivi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Nikoloz Kenchadze falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

In brief