Revaz Janelidze

Central Midfielder - Tskhinvali
10 Sep 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Revaz Janelidze

5 Edition

The Tskhinvali Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vakhtang Mikautadze

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Aleksandre Shengelia breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Revaz Janelidze at 21 — 8.00

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Revaz Janelidze did not need any: 8.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Shota Daraselia 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 The request is on a desk at Tskhinvali, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Tskhinvali say no — this time

The offer from Lokomotivi for Revaz Janelidze 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.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Otar Ananidze for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Tskhinvali will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Match

4 matches without a win for Tskhinvali

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tskhinvali are no longer polite ones.

Market

Tskhinvali get their man

The chase for Vakhtang Qazaishvili ended with $72.0K changing hands and Zugdidi out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

Market

Bachana Kobiashvili moves on

Torpedo Kutaisi pay $630.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Tskhinvali Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Lasha Ananidze scores twice — 8.08

Two goals and a mark of 8.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Tskhinvali say no — this time

The offer from Lokomotivi for Irakli Gvelesiani 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.

Squad

Lasha Ananidze signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lasha Ananidze and Tskhinvali agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Tskhinvali

Otar Ananidze 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.

Match

Tskhinvali find a way past Sapovnela

Sapovnela made Tskhinvali work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Revaz Janelidze

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No hiding place for Shota Janelidze

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Shota Janelidze, and the manager let it.

Squad

Lasha Ananidze knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lasha Ananidze trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

No place for Bachana Arveladze in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Bachana Arveladze has his answer from Tskhinvali; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

1 Edition

The Tskhinvali Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Mikheil Tsitaishvili 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.

Squad

Otar Ananidze 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 Tskhinvali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Tskhinvali training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bachana Kobiashvili 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Tskhinvali against Torpedo Kutaisi

0‑1 to Torpedo Kutaisi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Lokomotivi join the queue for Irakli Gvelesiani

Add another name to the list: Lokomotivi have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Irakli Gvelesiani. The answer from Tskhinvali has not changed — yet.

Squad

Lasha Ananidze knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Lasha Ananidze trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief