The Kolkheti Sentinel
Squad9 Jun 2036
Irakli Janelidze damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match7 Jun 2036
9 matches without a win for Kolkheti
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Kolkheti are no longer polite ones.
Match7 Jun 2036
Kolkheti taken apart
0‑3 to Torpedo Kutaisi, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad9 Jun 2036
A one-man rearguard from Archil Tsitaishvili
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad9 Jun 2036
Aleksandre Gamsakhurdia signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aleksandre Gamsakhurdia commits to Kolkheti for another 4 years.
Squad9 Jun 2036
Words at Kolkheti training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vakhtang Shengelia 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.
Boardroom9 Jun 2036
Wages eat 159% of everything Kolkheti earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Boardroom9 Jun 2036
Doors closed at Kolkheti
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Player ratings9 Jun 2036
Nobody could get near Aleksandre Gamsakhurdia
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Kolkheti
- Market The Vakhtang Shengelia story refuses to die
- Market Lasha Lobjanidze leaves for nothing