The Saburtalo Post
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Guram Mikautadze
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Saburtalo lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Arseny Rodionov, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.94
A mark of 7.94 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Saburtalo
Arseny Rodionov 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Tskhinvali take the points off Saburtalo
Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
One of those days for Jaba Daraselia
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.26, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
Revaz Ananidze wants to come home
“I did not go to Dinamo Batumi to sit and watch. I want to come back to Saburtalo and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Tornike Arveladze
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tornike Arveladze 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 Tornike Arveladze trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lasha Kvaratskhelia 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.
In brief
- Market Tornike Arveladze linked with a move away
- Player ratings Nika Kashia ran the game