The Saburtalo Post
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Davit Kakabadze runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Davit 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 Saburtalo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match1 Aug 2026
Saburtalo come up short against Kolkheti
Kolkheti left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Saba Mikautadze signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saba Mikautadze commits to Saburtalo for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Avtandil Zivzivadze 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Irakli Janelidze answers Kolkheti immediately
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Irakli Janelidze had Saburtalo level again within 1 minutes, and Kolkheti never got to play with a lead at all.
Market3 Aug 2026
Jaba Gvelesiani attracts admirers
The name of Jaba Gvelesiani has come up in conversations Saburtalo were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Bachana Gamsakhurdia 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 Bachana Gamsakhurdia trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Lasha Arveladze in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Lasha Arveladze has his answer from Saburtalo; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Jaba Gvelesiani in it
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Irakli Janelidze
- Player ratings Otar Mikautadze spends the afternoon fouling