The Kolkheti Sentinel
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Mamuka Qazaishvili has until the next board meeting
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
Only the photograph left for Goga Gvelesiani
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
Kolkheti lose Goga Ananidze
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
Temur Chakvetadze wants to come home
“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
Nika Daraselia gets it from the manager
“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
Nobody at Kolkheti has picked up the phone to Shahriyar Medvedev
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.
In brief
- Market The clock does Bader Kabli’s negotiating for him
- Market Elgün Bayramov leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Kolkheti answer back