The Dinamo Tbilisi Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Giorgi Gvasalia agrees terms with Merani
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dinamo Tbilisi people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 Aug 2026
Not going: Mikheil Makatsaria stays at Dinamo Tbilisi
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Andijon had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Evertton Araújo due for a Dinamo Tbilisi medical
Everything agreed with Flamengo, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Evidence Mokoena turns down Dinamo Tbilisi
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: SuperSport United keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mathew Gbomadu signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mathew Gbomadu commits to Dinamo Tbilisi for another 4 years.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi rebuffed over Manuel Insaurralde
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Lorenzo have kept their man, and Dinamo Tbilisi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Dinamo Tbilisi
Jaba Kankava and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi agree a free transfer for Mohamed Cherif
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Match8 Aug 2026
Algassime Bah sends Dinamo Tbilisi past Dinamo Batumi
It finished 2‑1, and it was Algassime Bah’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Dinamo Tbilisi.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Mamuka Kvilitaia joins the Dinamo Tbilisi first team
- Market One of our own: Otar Lobjanidze joins the Dinamo Tbilisi first team
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Mathew Gbomadu