The Torpedo Kutaisi Courier
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Giorgi Arabidze
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 Aug 2026
Torpedo Kutaisi say no — this time
The offer from Adana Demirspor for Sori Mané was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Giorgi Arabidze stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Giorgi Arabidze and Torpedo Kutaisi agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Torpedo Kutaisi
Giorgi Arabidze 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Viktor Bliznichenko
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match1 Aug 2026
Felipe Pires sends Torpedo Kutaisi past Tskhinvali
It finished 2‑0, and it was Felipe Pires’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Torpedo Kutaisi.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Felipe Pires
Marked 8.36 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes of Mateo Itrak at his very best
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Torpedo Kutaisi.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Viktor Bliznichenko was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Market Nobody at Torpedo Kutaisi has picked up the phone to Felipe Pires
- Squad Nodar Lominadze asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Felipe Pires finally opens his account