The Telavi Sentinel
Squad30 Sep 2030
Davit Mujiri breaks a bone — 60 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Sep 2030
Theodoros Chatziantoni hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Telavi can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Sep 2030
Valdeci 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 Telavi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Sep 2030
A move Eduards Savalnieks 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. Eduards Savalnieks is living that version at Telavi, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad30 Sep 2030
Léo Porfírio 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 dugout30 Sep 2030
Valdeci 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.
Market30 Sep 2030
Telavi bring in an old head
Slavomír Pagáč is 33 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
The dugout30 Sep 2030
The manager makes Nikita Slavytskyi a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Telavi. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout30 Sep 2030
Luka Nozadze asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Market Abov Avetisyan joins Telavi on a free
- Market Deny Sugamiele joins Telavi on a free
- The dugout Theodoros Chatziantoni keeps his manager's vote