Guram Ananidze

Striker - Torpedo Kutaisi U18
2 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Guram Ananidze

11 Edition

The Torpedo Kutaisi Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Luka Rekhviashvili is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Loan watch

Guram Kakabadze has seen enough of Saburtalo

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Torpedo Kutaisi, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout

When it matters, Warley plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Looking ahead

Demetre Buliskeria goes back to face Kolkheti

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Demetre Buliskeria’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Torpedo Kutaisi needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market

The Nodar Lominadze question follows Torpedo Kutaisi around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nodar Lominadze’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Demetre Buliskeria has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Demetre Buliskeria has written the date down.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Torpedo Kutaisi Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Giorgi Arabidze was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 37. 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.

Match

Komnen Andrić lights up a European night for Torpedo Kutaisi

1‑0 against Rostov, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Komnen Andrić was at the centre of the description.

Match

Whatever happens, Torpedo Kutaisi do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

A falling-out at Torpedo Kutaisi

Nodar Lominadze and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Mirandés tell Torpedo Kutaisi: Igor Nikić is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Torpedo Kutaisi lose Guram Ananidze

21 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Komnen Andrić

A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Player ratings

Giorgi Kokhreidze takes the honours

Marked 7.49 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Torpedo Kutaisi had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

No place for Giorgi Beridze on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Torpedo Kutaisi pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief

4 Edition

The Torpedo Kutaisi Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Mateo Stamatov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Filip Kljajić decides it from twelve yards

2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.

Match

Torpedo Kutaisi march on in the cup

Chikhura are out and Torpedo Kutaisi go through, 0‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market

Terms done: Jaba Kashia is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Chikhura waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Torpedo Kutaisi is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Felipe Longo

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Torpedo Kutaisi have done the hard part with Corinthians, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market

Torpedo Kutaisi turn down Saburtalo for Guram Kakabadze

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Torpedo Kutaisi

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Gonzalo Goñi

Torpedo Kutaisi asked and Platense said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Guram Ananidze out for 53 days

The medical room confirms 53 days on the sidelines for Guram Ananidze, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief