Mamuka Kvaratskhelia

Left Forward - Kolkheti U20
9 Apr 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mamuka Kvaratskhelia

54 Edition

The Kolkheti Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Guram Zivzivadze

16 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.

Match

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.

Player ratings

A chastening introduction for Mamuka Kvaratskhelia — 5.64

It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.64 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.

Market

Mamuka Kvaratskhelia is on his way

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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Mamuka Kobiashvili

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javohir Esonqulov 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Kolkheti

Lasha Ozbetelashvili 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mikheil Janelidze

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Jerry Alex was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.36. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

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The Kolkheti Sentinel

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Guram Zivzivadze damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

A hiding for Kolkheti

Beaten 0‑3 by Lokomotivi, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market

Kolkheti say no — this time

The offer from Torpedo Kutaisi for Temur Tsitaishvili was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 29 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Match

6 matches without a win for Kolkheti

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Kolkheti are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Kolkheti

Jerry Alex 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.

Squad

Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javohir Esonqulov 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Mikheil Janelidze

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Temur Tsitaishvili 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.

In brief