Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tskhinvali will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“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 The request is on a desk at Tskhinvali, and it is not being withdrawn.
Renato Bruno and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Words at Tskhinvali training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Levan Qazaishvili 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tornike Tsitaishvili and Tskhinvali agree another 4 years.
Words at Saburtalo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thiago Souza 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.
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Saburtalo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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 academy exists for exactly this morning. Archil Kashia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Davit Kobiashvili is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Jemal Tabidze has, at Saburtalo, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Vakho Bedoshvili 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.
9 goals in one match, Vakho Bedoshvili on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Saburtalo and Kolkheti.
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Vakho Bedoshvili has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.