“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 The request is on a desk at Iberia 1999, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Shota Kiteishvili after the 2‑2 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
In brief
The dugoutSomebody else is better right now than Warley
SquadThe division's best last weekend was a Iberia 1999 man
Dinamo Tbilisi-2 will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Iberia 1999 were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gustavo Santana did not need any: 8.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.81 for the rest of it.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Marked 9.97 — 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.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Iberia 1999 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Successful dribbles: 31. 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.
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Amiran Dzagania scored in the 88th minute, Meshakhte Tkibuli had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Iberia 1999 took the lot.
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.
A 1‑0 win over Meshakhte Tkibuli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iberia 1999 can pretend not to have heard.
Giorgi Makaridze 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 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.
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.
Position 1, 19 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Iberia 1999 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iberia 1999 can pretend not to have heard.
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.
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.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Iberia 1999 know it.
The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.
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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Iberia 1999 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jemal-Giorgi Jinjolava 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.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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.
16 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Iberia 1999 and Iberia 1999-2 in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Iberia 1999 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iberia 1999 can pretend not to have heard.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Iberia 1999 can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rezende 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 academy exists for exactly this morning. Dato Mchedlidze has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Iberia 1999 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
At 21 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.
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Giorgi Makaridze 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 Apr 2027
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jemal-Giorgi Jinjolava 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.
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.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 72 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
“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 Iberia 1999, and it is not being withdrawn.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Iberia 1999, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Iberia 1999 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Iberia 1999 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gustavo Santana did not need any: 9.79, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
3 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.
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Gustavo Santana in the middle of it, and Spaeri unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
In brief
Player ratingsMarcos Echeverría was on a different afternoon to everybody else
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
“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 Iberia 1999, and it is not being withdrawn.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.24 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Iberia 1999 and Dinamo Tbilisi-2 in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
A performance of 9.82 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jemal-Giorgi Jinjolava 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.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Iberia 1999 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“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 Iberia 1999, and it is not being withdrawn.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
7.94, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Giorgi Makaridze 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rezende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A 2‑1 win over Meshakhte Tkibuli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Iberia 1999 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iberia 1999 can pretend not to have heard.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Iberia 1999 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rezende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Amiran Dzagania 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jemal-Giorgi Jinjolava was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
Squad6 new faces, and Iberia 1999 are still learning each other
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Iberia 1999 will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“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 Iberia 1999, and it is not being withdrawn.
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Iberia 1999 know now that the thought has arrived.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Iberia 1999 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iberia 1999 can pretend not to have heard.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Iberia 1999 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Giorgi Makaridze 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 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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Qarabag have kept their man, and Iberia 1999 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Terence Kongolo trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Oscar Gonzalez arrives from Godoy Cruz with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Iberia 1999 will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
“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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Iberia 1999 close the window on a squad of their own making
3 in and 1 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jemal-Giorgi Jinjolava was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neftchi have kept their man, and Iberia 1999 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Iberia 1999 know which stage they are at.
Iberia 1999 have made the call to Temperley. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Iberia 1999 have made the call to Godoy Cruz. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 142 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rezende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Iberia 1999 asked and Neftchi 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 system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Tornike Megrelishvili was one of the reasons people came, and $390.0K does not replace that by itself.
Iberia 1999 had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Wigan Athletic, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Giorgi Makaridze 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.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. João Miguel has just signed for Iberia 1999, and for once the answer mattered.
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.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CRB have kept their man, and Iberia 1999 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Iberia 1999 have made the call to Sport Recife. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Dinamo Tbilisi is saying, and nobody at Iberia 1999 is enjoying the guessing.
Giorgi Makaridze 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.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Akaki Giunashvili is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Iberia 1999 asked and DAC Dunajska Streda 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 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.
Wigan Athletic 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.
At 21 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.
Amiran Dzagania 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.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Iberia 1999 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
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.
Iberia 1999 asked and Dila 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 manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Nikoloz Dadiani has his answer from Iberia 1999; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
A loan enquiry to Dinamo Tbilisi: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
A loan enquiry to Dinamo Tbilisi: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rezende 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.
At 19 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiago Cóser 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Iberia 1999 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Giorgi Makaridze 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.
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Iberia 1999 hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tornike Chakvetadze has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vakhtang Kashia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The arithmetic ran out, and everybody could see it coming from a distance. The hard summer starts now, and next season's fixtures will be full of unfamiliar names.
28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Iberia 1999 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Iberia 1999 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tiago Cóser 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.
44 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Iberia 1999 lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Giorgi Makaridze 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 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.
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Iberia 1999 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vahid Selimović will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Iberia 1999 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rezende 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tiago Cóser 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rezende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Iberia 1999 know it.
Renan Oliveira 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.
Giorgi Makaridze 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rezende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
13 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.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Iberia 1999 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Vahid Selimović has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiago Cóser 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.
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Iberia 1999 know it.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Iberia 1999, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Mamuka Tsitaishvili 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.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Iberia 1999 are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rezende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
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.
In brief
BoardroomWages swallow 97% of the Iberia 1999 income
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Akaki Giunashvili is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tiago Cóser was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Bakar Kardava 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rezende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Iberia 1999, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Iberia 1999 would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rezende was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Lorenzo have kept their man, and Iberia 1999 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Iberia 1999 will try again when the window opens; Merani may not be selling by then.
Renan Oliveira 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.
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Iberia 1999 will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Iberia 1999 would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Iberia 1999 ran out of time with Fredrikstad. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 20 signed and 7 gone
That is the business done at Iberia 1999 until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $650.0K — a club that wants Papuna Beruashvili enough to be asked twice.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Iberia 1999 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Iberia 1999 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiago Cóser 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.
Iberia 1999 asked and Tottenham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Iberia 1999 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Irakli Bidzinashvili is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Iberia 1999 have gone to Fredrikstad 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.
Iberia 1999 and Merani have settled on $280.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Iberia 1999 can pretend not to have heard.
Iberia 1999 offered $580.0K; Rustavi 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.
Iberia 1999 asked and Kairat said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Warley from Torpedo Kutaisi for $1.3M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
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.
Sioni go through and Iberia 1999 go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
$1.3M on the table at Torpedo Kutaisi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $790.0K has been paid because Mohamed Cherif is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Chapecoense keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Mohamed Cherif was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $790.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
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.
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The clubs have shaken hands with Torpedo Kutaisi; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Progreso is saying, and nobody at Iberia 1999 is enjoying the guessing.
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
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.
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Iberia 1999 know which stage they are at.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rezende has just signed for Iberia 1999, and for once the answer mattered.
Iberia 1999 had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Talleres, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Iberia 1999 asked and Carabobo 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 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.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Davit Mikautadze is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jaba Kakabadze has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kakha Tsitaishvili has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The offer went to Talleres this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Guram Goshteliani has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Still no offer on the table, and Bakar Kardava’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Iberia 1999, another week without a signature from Saba Bochorishvili.