Marked for Revaz Kiteishvili
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Sapovnela to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kolkheti and fight for my place.” 10 appearances in 41 matches say the rest.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
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Uneasy
Market1 Nov 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolkheti can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Nov 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Goga Gvelesiani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kolkheti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Nov 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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Max Guerrero
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad1 Nov 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 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Chikhura to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kolkheti and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 42 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
The terraces25 Oct 2027
Anger at Kolkheti spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Kolkheti
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Kolkheti is running low.
Match25 Oct 2027
Every point is an argument now for Kolkheti
Position 14 and 19 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad25 Oct 2027
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Vladislav Bolotnikov is living that version at Kolkheti, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Mikheil Janelidze 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oleg Veretilo, and the manager let it.
Loan watch25 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Sioni to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kolkheti and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 39 matches say the rest.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
Market25 Oct 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Kolkheti, another week without a signature from Vladislav Bolotnikov.
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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Kolkheti can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market4 Oct 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Goga Gvelesiani will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kolkheti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Max Guerrero 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 Kolkheti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Oct 2027
22 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Chikhura to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kolkheti and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 38 matches say the rest.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
Squad4 Oct 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.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
$1.5M taken back off the Kolkheti table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market4 Oct 2027
11 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
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Crisis
Market13 Sep 2027
Elgün Bayramov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kolkheti they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Mikheil Janelidze 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Dila left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Shota Ananidze and Kolkheti agree another 3 years.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bader Kabli, and the manager let it.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Kolkheti — 7.51
1 for Revaz Kashia, marked 7.51, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market23 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Bader Kabli
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Bader Kabli will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kolkheti the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Max Guerrero 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 Kolkheti this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad23 Aug 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.
Match21 Aug 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Revaz Kashia. 1‑0 against Chikhura, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Loan watch23 Aug 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, and 8 appearances in 29 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces2 Aug 2027
Anger at Kolkheti spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match31 Jul 2027
The wait goes on for Kolkheti
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match31 Jul 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Saburtalo, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Kolkheti
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Kolkheti is running low.
Match31 Jul 2027
The goals have deserted Kolkheti
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Kolkheti can tell you which week it ends in.
Market2 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kolkheti is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market2 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Mikheil Janelidze 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Match10 Jul 2027
8 matches without a win for Kolkheti
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Kolkheti are no longer polite ones.
Market12 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolkheti can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market12 Jul 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kolkheti is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad12 Jul 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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Jul 2027
3 matches without a goal for Kolkheti
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Loan watch12 Jul 2027
“I did not go to Chikhura to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kolkheti and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 26 matches say the rest.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
Player ratings12 Jul 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.40 on the card, and the Kolkheti support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Market31 May 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolkheti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kolkheti may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market31 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kolkheti is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 May 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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 May 2027
Léandro Gomes 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.
Squad31 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Léandro Gomes, and the manager let it.
Loan watch31 May 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, and 3 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Marked 7.37. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match29 May 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Dila defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Uneasy
Match8 May 2027
No end in sight to Kolkheti's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kolkheti has to find a result from somewhere.
Match8 May 2027
Kolkheti cannot find the net
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad10 May 2027
Guga Palavandishvili 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Léandro Gomes and Kolkheti agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch10 May 2027
“I did not go to Chikhura to sit and watch. I want to come back to Kolkheti and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Temur Kiteishvili, and the manager let it.
Match8 May 2027
Point won or two lost for Kolkheti?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Chikhura? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Temur Kiteishvili
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolkheti lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kolkheti may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 Mar 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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I watch every Kolkheti game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sioni runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Match27 Mar 2027
It needed Claude Kouakou to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Lokomotivi, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Temur Kiteishvili
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolkheti lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
Supporters turn on the $520.0K sale of Lasha Kiteishvili
He is going to Samtredia, the club has $520.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market25 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolkheti can pretend not to have heard.
Market25 Jan 2027
Shukura come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kolkheti did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Guga Palavandishvili 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Lasha Kiteishvili has left for Samtredia in a $520.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Temur Kiteishvili
109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolkheti lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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Uneasy
Match23 Nov 2026
Kolkheti sink to position 16
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Mikheil Janelidze 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guga Palavandishvili 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.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“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, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Market16 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tornike Ananidze signs something — a contract at Kolkheti or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market16 Nov 2026
Kolkheti have let the market know Guga Palavandishvili can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolkheti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bader Kabli gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Bader Kabli has just signed for Kolkheti, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Kolkheti
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match28 Sep 2026
Kolkheti sink to position 16
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market28 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolkheti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Sep 2026
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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Guga Palavandishvili 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Kolkheti's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Kolkheti has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Guga Palavandishvili 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lasha Ananidze, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolkheti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Kolkheti
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Kolkheti
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Revaz Kiteishvili 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.55 on the card, and the Kolkheti support went home talking about one name.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Kolkheti throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Saburtalo the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Kolkheti will enjoy reviewing.
Market3 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kolkheti, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market3 Aug 2026
Samtredia come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Kolkheti did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mikheil Tsitaishvili provided it, and the 8.44 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mikheil Janelidze 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Saburtalo left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mamuka Ananidze and Kolkheti agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guga Palavandishvili 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Sapovnela have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Revaz Kashia. The answer from Kolkheti has not changed — yet.