The Shukura Herald
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Temur Shengelia will not be coming to Shukura
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Zugdidi is saying, and nobody at Shukura is enjoying the guessing.
Match12 Sep 2026
Shukura come up short against Dila
Dila left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market14 Sep 2026
Shukura promote Archil Tsitaishvili from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Archil Tsitaishvili has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
Irakli Ananidze steps up from the Shukura academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Irakli Ananidze has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Minago Khozrevanidze was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Shukura
Giorgi Kavtaradze 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Goga Kvilitaia left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Shukura training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rezo Meskhidze is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Luka Katamadze gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout Shukura pick somebody else ahead of Irakli Baladze
- Looking ahead A reunion for Beka Kharshiladze
- Squad Otar Kashia makes his debut at 14