Nika Kashia

Striker - Merani
18 Nov 2029
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172 Edition

The Merani Sentinel

12 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces12 Nov 2029

Anger at Merani spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad12 Nov 2029

A fracture rules Nika Arveladze out for 62 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Merani will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad12 Nov 2029

Ruslan Askerov 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 Merani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Merani training over how hard people work
  • Squad Nika Kashia signs a new deal
Back issues
171 Edition

The Merani Sentinel

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

Merani put Nika Gamsakhurdia on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Squad5 Nov 2029

A fracture rules Nika Arveladze out for 69 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Merani will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

Crisis meeting at Merani

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Market5 Nov 2029

Aphelele Nzimande 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 The request is on a desk at Merani, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Aphelele Nzimande 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 Merani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

$484.6K taken back off the Merani table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

In brief

163 Edition

The Merani Sentinel

10 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market10 Sep 2029

Aphelele Nzimande asks to leave Merani

“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.

Squad10 Sep 2029

Temur Lomadze: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Merani have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad10 Sep 2029

Tempers go at Merani

Ruslan Askerov 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.

Squad10 Sep 2029

Nodar Kavtaradze 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.

Squad10 Sep 2029

Nika Kashia stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nika Kashia and Merani agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings10 Sep 2029

The afternoon belonged to Ruslan Askerov

A mark of 7.45, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief