The Kolkheti Sentinel
Squad29 Mar 2027
Algassime Bah 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A move Daniel Fiola 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. Daniel Fiola is living that version at Kolkheti, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Kolkheti
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Guga Palavandishvili was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Fábio Mondoni wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Kolkheti know it.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Viktor Bliznichenko
“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.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Marios Pourzitidis knocks on the manager's door
“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, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Tornike Kirkitadze faces his old club
Lokomotivi next, and one man in the Kolkheti dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market29 Mar 2027
The Levan Kharabadze talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kolkheti know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market29 Mar 2027
Andrea De Bonis joins Kolkheti on a free
No fee and no drama: Andrea De Bonis has signed at Kolkheti, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
In brief
- Market Kolkheti shop where it costs nothing
- Market Kolkheti pick up Andrei Tanase for nothing
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Lokomotivi