The Saburtalo Post
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Temur Ananidze runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 74. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bachana Kvaratskhelia breaks a bone — 93 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Aug 2026
Mikheil Shengelia sends Saburtalo through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Mikheil Shengelia obliged against Guria. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Saburtalo.
Match12 Aug 2026
Mikheil Shengelia wins it after the whistle should have gone
96 minutes played. Mikheil Shengelia found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Guria went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Market17 Aug 2026
Saburtalo turn down Shukura for Tornike Okriashvili
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Saburtalo
Jemal Tabidze 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Junior Brítez 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mikheil Shengelia
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match15 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Saburtalo against Torpedo Kutaisi
0‑1 to Torpedo Kutaisi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Squad Jaba Kakabadze gets it from the manager
- Player ratings Both jobs done by Shota Okriashvili — 6.32
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Mikheil Shengelia