The Zugdidi Chronicle
Squad18 Oct 2027
Davit Gamsakhurdia breaks a bone — 25 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market18 Oct 2027
Goga Gvelesiani asks to leave Zugdidi
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Zurab Kakabadze 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 Zugdidi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Beka Beridze
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Zugdidi will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Zugdidi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Beka Beridze 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
Zurab Kakabadze linked with a move away
The name of Zurab Kakabadze keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zugdidi say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Loan watch Sioni cannot leave Levan Ananidze out
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Bachana Okriashvili
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Yefrem Denisov at Sioni