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Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Beka Varshanidze
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gonio lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
28 days out for Aleko Ananidze after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gonio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ilia Katsiashvili is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
46 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gonio lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Gonio
Braga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Beka Varshanidze
53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gonio lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Braga 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 Gonio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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Boardroom
Wages eat 194% of everything Gonio earn
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Squad
Words at Gonio training over how hard people work
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The dugout
Shalva Burjanadze keeps his manager's vote
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 33 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 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 Gonio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Nov 2026
24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Robinho pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Gonio
Braga 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.
In brief
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Squad
Aleko Ananidze arrives at the club he grew up with
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Market
Gonio shop where it costs nothing
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 47 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Nov 2026
Robinho hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gonio can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Robinho wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Gonio can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 54 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Braga 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 Gonio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 194% of the Gonio income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 61 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Gonio
Braga 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Gonio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaba Kasrelishvili is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
69 days out for Lasha Kasradze after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gonio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Gonio
Braga 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 36, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Gonio training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jaba Kasrelishvili is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
No fee and no drama: Shalva Burjanadze has signed at Gonio, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
77 days out for Lasha Kasradze after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gonio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Gonio
Braga and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Eduardo wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Gonio can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Gonio
Mate Kometiani 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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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 91 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ilia Katsiashvili is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 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 Gonio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
98 days out for Lasha Kasradze after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gonio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Gonio
Levan Ingorokva and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A season on the outside for Robinho
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Gonio has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
105 days out for Lasha Kasradze after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gonio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Gonio
Chabuki Labadze 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Robinho has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Gonio know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
In brief
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Market
Talks stall between Gonio and Robinho
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Squad
15 new faces, and Gonio are still learning each other
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Market
Robinho joins Gonio to strengthen the squad
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 112 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Gonio close the window on a squad of their own making
26 in and 13 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
Gonio had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Lokomotivi, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Gonio asked and Kolkheti-1913 Poti said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Gonio
Chabuki Labadze 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Gonio, another week without a signature from Gia Apkhazava.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
119 days out for Lasha Kasradze after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gonio will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The deal with Lokomotivi is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Gareji Sagarejo is saying, and nobody at Gonio is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 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 Gonio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Gonio asked and Dinamo Tbilisi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The formation has left Hassen behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Gonio will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 126 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Gonio
Mate Kometiani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets24 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.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Lasha Kasradze breaks a bone — 133 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 133 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match12 Aug 2026
Gonio bow out of the cup
Meshakhte Tkibuli go through and Gonio 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Kolkheti-1913 Poti is saying, and nobody at Gonio is enjoying the guessing.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Gonio
Mate Kometiani 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Torpedo Kutaisi wanted more than $120.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets17 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Eduardo
He is doing his job and he is not settling. Gonio were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mirza Partenadze, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The formation has left Mate Kometiani behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Gonio will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
In brief
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Market
Still no ink between Gonio and Matheus Bambu
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Squad
12 new faces, and Gonio are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Lasha Kasradze out for 141 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gonio will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mate Kometiani gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mate Kometiani has just signed for Gonio, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nikoloz Tskhovrebashvili and Gonio agree another 3 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Gaga Gazdeliani is a Gonio player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Erekle Jijavadze is a Gonio player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Gia Apkhazava returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Gia Apkhazava is a Gonio player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kakhaber Kakhabrishvili commits to Gonio for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Gonio
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mirza Partenadze was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Gonio
Levan Ingorokva 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Deportivo Laferrere have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Rustavi have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Gonio, another week without a signature from Mirza Partenadze.