Marked for Tornike Kirkitadze
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Steady
Market9 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tornike Kirkitadze will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Batumi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Levan Shengelia 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
Sandro Janelidze 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 98% of everything Dinamo Batumi earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Dinamo Batumi will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tornike Kirkitadze will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Batumi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Beka Zivzivadze: 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.” Dinamo Batumi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Levan Khozrevanidze 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.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Batumi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
133% of the income goes out in wages at Dinamo Batumi
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market5 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Levan Khozrevanidze’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market14 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Tornike Kirkitadze will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Batumi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Batumi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.10 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Dinamo Batumi had the best player on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A Dinamo Batumi teenager takes the young player award
Mirian Zoidze is 18, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sandro Janelidze 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Guria, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Paulo Vitor at his very best
Marked 8.14. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dinamo Batumi.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Guram Japaridze
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Guram Japaridze has come out of that comparison in the side, and Dinamo Batumi have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Paulo Vitor finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Dinamo Batumi have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
60 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Kolkheti for Mate Turmanidze 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Levan Shengelia 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Irakli Rukhadze has left for Saburtalo in a $440.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
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Crisis
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
Merani go through and Dinamo Batumi go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo Batumi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Dinamo Batumi
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Dinamo Batumi are no longer polite ones.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Dinamo Batumi
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Revaz Chiteishvili 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luka Kapianidze, and the manager let it.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Dinamo Batumi dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Tornike Kirkitadze has agreed terms with Dila for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Paulo Vitor and Dinamo Batumi agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Levan Shengelia 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Paulo Vitor 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market10 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Luka Tsulukidze’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.17 on the card, and the Dinamo Batumi support went home talking about one name.