Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tskhinvali know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Tornike Arveladze has let it be known that he does not like the way Tskhinvali are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
“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 Lokomotivi, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Lokomotivi spent the window trying to move Giorgi Todua on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
The name of David Asayure has come up in conversations Lokomotivi were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
He is 19, and nobody at Lokomotivi signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Lokomotivi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
At 29 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Lokomotivi have a decision that made itself.