The Guria Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Guria
Davit Maisashvili 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eyes on Levan Vardiashvili again
The phone has started ringing about Levan Vardiashvili again, and this time the name on the line is Zugdidi. Guria are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Aug 2026
Talks stall between Guria and Tornike Kapanadze
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad10 Aug 2026
11 new faces, and Guria are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Tornike Kapanadze
7.36, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Guria had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Market10 Aug 2026
Guria sign Nika Ananidze, one for the future
Nika Ananidze is 14, 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Guria buy the years ahead of Vakhtang Okriashvili
He is 15, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Match8 Aug 2026
Guria and Chikhura cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Chikhura came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Tsotne Chotalishvili runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Dimitri Virubovi
- Squad Somebody is after Tornike Mumladze’s shirt