The Lokomotivi Post
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules David Asayure out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lokomotivi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Lado Chikhradze: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lokomotivi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
No sign of nerves from Luka Metreveli at 20 — 7.63
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Luka Metreveli did not need any: 7.63, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Bukhuti Putkaradze stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bukhuti Putkaradze and Lokomotivi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Vini Moura wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Lokomotivi can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Lokomotivi
Geovane and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match6 Mar 2027
Boniphanseo Phiri among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Boniphanseo Phiri on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Lokomotivi and Gagra.
Match6 Mar 2027
Boniphanseo Phiri sends Lokomotivi past Gagra
It finished 4‑2, and it was Boniphanseo Phiri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lokomotivi.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Lokomotivi
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Boniphanseo Phiri
- Market Saba Shengelia steps up from the Lokomotivi academy
- Market One of our own: Archil Shengelia joins the Lokomotivi first team