The Tskhinvali Post
Market7 Sep 2026
Irakli Zivzivadze puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Tskhinvali, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 0 in, 8 out at Tskhinvali
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 8 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tskhinvali
Goga Arveladze 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Kenya Police tell Tskhinvali: Samuel Ayanrinde is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bachana Zivzivadze 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 dugout7 Sep 2026
Bachana Zivzivadze 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Danilo Milani makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Beka Kobiashvili has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tskhinvali will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Irakli Gvelesiani slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Irakli Gvelesiani is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
In brief
- Market The Umut Ucar talk will not go away
- Market The market said no: Danilo Milani stays put
- The dugout Irakli Kvilitaia knocks on the manager’s door