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Squad28 Dec 2026
Beka Tsitaishvili damages knee ligaments — 60 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 60 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Giorgi Loria and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paris Psaltis, and the manager let it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Tbilisi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Lucas Flores has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Lucas Flores has written the date down.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
Beka Tsitaishvili damages knee ligaments — 67 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 67 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Numan Kurdić, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Nikoloz Ninua gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Nikoloz Ninua is on it.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Mathew Gbomadu has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Dinamo Tbilisi that is a harder question to answer.
Market21 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Algassime Bah’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Giorgi Kharebashvili trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Squad14 Dec 2026
Beka Tsitaishvili damages knee ligaments — 74 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 74 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Aleksandre Kalandadze and Dinamo Tbilisi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Lyes Houri gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lyes Houri is on it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Levan Shengelia has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
Market14 Dec 2026
The name of Welton Júnior keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Tbilisi say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Paris Psaltis asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Squad7 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Beka Tsitaishvili
82 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Tbilisi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A season's verdict on Giorgi Gvasalia: the best of his age
Dinamo Tbilisi have a 19-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.
Squad7 Dec 2026
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Dinamo Tbilisi will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The golden glove goes to Giorgi Loria
9 clean sheets across a season, and the one award on the pitch nobody else is eligible for. Most keepers get through a whole career without a year like it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market7 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nikoloz Ninua signs something — a contract at Dinamo Tbilisi or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Boardroom30 Nov 2026
The season a town measures the next twenty against. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Beka Tsitaishvili
90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Tbilisi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
2 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Match25 Nov 2026
A 0‑0 win over Torpedo Kutaisi, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Tbilisi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match25 Nov 2026
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match25 Nov 2026
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi can tell you which week it ends in.
Match25 Nov 2026
9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.
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Squad23 Nov 2026
Beka Tsitaishvili damages knee ligaments — 99 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 99 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Jaba Kankava and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“I watch every Dinamo Tbilisi game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sioni runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marios Pourzitidis trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market23 Nov 2026
The Numan Kurdić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Tbilisi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Lyes Houri keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Lyes Houri plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Tbilisi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jaba Kankava in a row with a teammate
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 Tbilisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
“I did not go to AS Trencin to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Tbilisi and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Lyes Houri gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lyes Houri is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Léo Santos
“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.
Market16 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Tbilisi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikoloz Ugrekhelidze trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Léo Santos: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Dinamo Tbilisi will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A season on the outside for Joanderson
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Squad9 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dinamo Tbilisi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Jaba Kankava 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Algassime Bah
“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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market9 Nov 2026
It is the least glamorous business a club does and the reason seasons do not collapse in February. Joanderson is here for the weeks when three men are injured and somebody still has to play.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. Dinamo Tbilisi would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
Market9 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Tbilisi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
7 appearances at Sioni and the goals have stopped going in. Dinamo Tbilisi lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
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Squad2 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Tbilisi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Dinamo Tbilisi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets2 Nov 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Levan Shengelia and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Jaba Kankava has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market2 Nov 2026
The name of Nikoloz Ninua keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dinamo Tbilisi say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The manager makes Lucas Flores a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Dinamo Tbilisi. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Dinamo Tbilisi
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Sioni to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Tbilisi and fight for my place.” 3 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Something was said to Welton Júnior and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Numan Kurdić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Tbilisi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Levan Shengelia plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Word from the training ground: Jaba Kankava
The sharpest man in every session this week, by all accounts. Lines like this run the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Oct 2026
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I did not go to AS Trencin to sit and watch. I want to come back to Dinamo Tbilisi and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Numan Kurdić, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Lyes Houri has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Bachana Daraselia after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Saburtalo will be the happier side with the point.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Iyed Haj Khalifa and Dinamo Tbilisi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giorgi Kharaishvili, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Saburtalo in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dinamo Tbilisi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
Mate Ghaghvishvili’s loan is measured in nothing happening
4 clean sheets from 6 appearances at Sioni. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Numan Kurdić knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Tbilisi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match3 Oct 2026
After 11 games, Dinamo Tbilisi finally taste it again
The first defeat in 11 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Dila; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jaba Kankava and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Giorgi Loria
“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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Giorgi Gvasalia is the month’s best young player
At 19 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. Dinamo Tbilisi will try not to make too much of it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Bachana Daraselia left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Tbilisi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match26 Sep 2026
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match26 Sep 2026
8 matches without defeat, and then Tskhinvali. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jaba Kankava and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Numan Kurdić, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match26 Sep 2026
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad28 Sep 2026
16 new faces, and Dinamo Tbilisi 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Dinamo Tbilisi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match19 Sep 2026
8 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jaba Kankava in a row with a teammate
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 Tbilisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Giorgi Kharaishvili was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.28. 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Lyes Houri beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Bachana Daraselia on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Triumph
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Tbilisi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match9 Sep 2026
Tskhinvali are out and Dinamo Tbilisi go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match12 Sep 2026
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dinamo Tbilisi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Flamengo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match12 Sep 2026
Sioni made Dinamo Tbilisi work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Tbilisi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Irakli Siradze had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi close the window on a squad of their own making
14 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Torpedo Kutaisi have kept their man, and Dinamo Tbilisi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Numan Kurdić and Dinamo Tbilisi agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Algassime Bah slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Algassime Bah is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Lyes Houri makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Triumph
Squad31 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nobody wants to play Dinamo Tbilisi right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Tbilisi can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Okzhetpes for Mikheil Makatsaria 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Santos is saying, and nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi asked and Zugdidi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Abdoulaye Yoro has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 2‑0 win over Samtredia, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Triumph
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Dinamo Tbilisi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match19 Aug 2026
Kolkheti are out and Dinamo Tbilisi go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match22 Aug 2026
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Honved for Mathew Gbomadu 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.50, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Giorgi Kharebashvili provided it, and the 8.24 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi offered $5.0M; Kaizer Chiefs said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Abdoulaye Yoro at 19 — 7.82
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Abdoulaye Yoro did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo Tbilisi can pretend not to have heard.
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Triumph
Squad17 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 112 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Aug 2026
A 4‑0 win over Sapovnela, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match15 Aug 2026
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Dinamo Tbilisi scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Iyed Haj Khalifa takes the afternoon — 8.71
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Iyed Haj Khalifa provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.14, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi have gone to Kaizer Chiefs with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Abdoulaye Yoro at 19 — 8.22
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Abdoulaye Yoro did not need any: 8.22, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market17 Aug 2026
Podbrezova come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Tbilisi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Flamengo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 119 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mathew Gbomadu commits to Dinamo Tbilisi for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer from Merani for Levan Janelidze 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jaba Kankava and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Saba Shengelia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Khvicha Chakvetadze is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Beka Tsitaishvili has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
12‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad3 Aug 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Nikoloz Ninua, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.33, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Mate Vatsadze yet — 9.80
At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Nikoloz Ugrekhelidze scored, was marked 7.49, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market3 Aug 2026
Andijon come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Dinamo Tbilisi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tigres have kept their man, and Dinamo Tbilisi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jaba Kankava commits to Dinamo Tbilisi for another 2 years.