The Guria Courier
Squad11 Sep 2028
A fracture rules Daniel Leitz out for 71 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Guria will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market11 Sep 2028
Rodolfo Moisés asks to leave Guria
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Guria
Lasha Kukulava 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Rodolfo Moisés wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Guria can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Transfer targets11 Sep 2028
Otar Gagnidze stays at Samtredia as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Guria will try again when the window opens; Samtredia may not be selling by then.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Rodolfo Moisés 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.
The dugout11 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Nikita Honcharov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market11 Sep 2028
Guria sign Adam Gyomber, one for the future
Adam Gyomber is 18, and Guria have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market11 Sep 2028
Guria sign Daniil Tsvetkov, one for the future
Daniil Tsvetkov is 18, and Guria have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market The Rezo Lomidze conversation is coming
- The dugout Nikita Honcharov is still paying for one afternoon at Guria
- The dugout Tornike Kapanadze knocks on the manager’s door