The Dila Post
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Noah Saviolo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 50. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match1 Oct 2026
Dila do the business in Europe
0‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Dila came through the finding-out well against Legia.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Luka Sanikidze says Dila 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Filipe Alves wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dila can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Dila
Noah Saviolo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Blankson Anoff 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
$1.5M on the table at Dila
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Ruben Compaoré
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ruben Compaoré has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dila have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No place for Khvicha Kakabadze on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Dila pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
In brief
- The dugout Ramaric Etou has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Giorgi Gvelesiani on the draw
- Market Shota Shekiladze linked with a move away