Marked for Oleksandr Komar
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Squad1 Mar 2027
“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; Kolkheti-1913 Poti are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Jemal Tabidze 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Gui Campana 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.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleksandr Komar, and the manager let it.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead1 Mar 2027
Kolkheti-1913 Poti take on the side everybody is chasing
Dila arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Back issues
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Market22 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Juan Asprilla
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Juan Asprilla will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kolkheti-1913 Poti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Jemal Tabidze 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Kolkheti-1913 Poti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pablo Pardal 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Kolkheti-1913 Poti, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Gui Campana has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kolkheti-1913 Poti will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Joelson has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Joelson has written the date down.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Kolkheti-1913 Poti, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
$4.4M on the table at Dila. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jemal Tabidze 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Kolkheti-1913 Poti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gui Campana 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Kolkheti-1913 Poti asked and Dinamo Batumi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mate Turmanidze and Kolkheti-1913 Poti agree another 3 years.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Vladimir Arsić has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kolkheti-1913 Poti will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Kolkheti-1913 Poti will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Joelson has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Joelson has written the date down.
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Market11 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lokomotivi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Kolkheti-1913 Poti is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market11 Jan 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Kolkheti-1913 Poti have done the hard part with Lokomotivi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A move Otar Chochia would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Otar Chochia is living that version at Kolkheti-1913 Poti, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolkheti-1913 Poti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andria Bartishvili is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pablo Pardal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“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.
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The dugout4 Jan 2027
Oleksandr Komar: 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.” Kolkheti-1913 Poti have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Arthur arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Arthur has, at Kolkheti-1913 Poti, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kolkheti-1913 Poti have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Jemal Tabidze 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gui Campana was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Kolkheti-1913 Poti asked and Dila said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market4 Jan 2027
Rustavi are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Kolkheti-1913 Poti will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The formation has left Arthur behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Kolkheti-1913 Poti will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Torpedo Kutaisi have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
“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; Kolkheti-1913 Poti are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gabriel Silva 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Andria Bartishvili is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gui Campana 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Gui Campana has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Kolkheti-1913 Poti will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Joelson has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Joelson has written the date down.