Otar Lobjanidze

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Marked for Otar Lobjanidze

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The Saburtalo Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match22 Aug 2026

No mercy from Saburtalo

Sapovnela will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Saburtalo were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Otar Lobjanidze out for 17 days

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

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Semyon Rakov, 33, rolls back the years — 8.01

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market24 Aug 2026

Mikheil Arveladze 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 The request is on a desk at Saburtalo, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market24 Aug 2026

Saburtalo say no — this time

The offer from Sioni for Otar Kiteishvili was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Davit Kiteishvili 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

German Lavrov 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Beka Shengelia

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Giorgi Lobjanidze in the eights

A performance of 8.57 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

Back issues
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The Saburtalo Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

The unthinkable, invoiced: Nicolò Moretti sold

Genoa arrived with $4.0M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Tornike Mchedlidze

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match12 Aug 2026

The cup run ends for Saburtalo

0‑0 against Guria, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Giorgi Lobjanidze scores twice — 8.56

Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Otar Lobjanidze 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.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Supporters turn on the $4.0M sale of Nicolò Moretti

He is going to Genoa, the club has $4.0M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market17 Aug 2026

Saburtalo turn down Samtredia for Tornike Mchedlidze

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

Davit Kiteishvili 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Saburtalo get the job done against Torpedo Kutaisi

A 3‑1 win over Torpedo Kutaisi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief