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The Lokomotivi Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Marcos Pedro gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marcos Pedro has just signed for Lokomotivi, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

Lokomotivi make their move for Aleksandre Kvaratskhelia

$900.0K on the table at Zugdidi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

A falling-out at Lokomotivi

Dennis Amoako and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

No deal for Tornike Kirkitadze at that price

Lokomotivi offered $37.0K; Dinamo Batumi 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.

Boardroom

Luka Rekhviashvili will join Lokomotivi for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Luka Rekhviashvili has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Lokomotivi have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

Marcos Pedro 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.

Transfer targets

Dinamo Tbilisi tell Lokomotivi: Léo Santos is not for sale

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.

Market

One of our own: Tornike Daraselia joins the Lokomotivi first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tornike Daraselia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Levan Kashia joins the Lokomotivi first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Levan Kashia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

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The Lokomotivi Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Dennis Amoako takes the match ball home

6 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

5 goals for Aleksandre Turkia

The match ball belongs to Aleksandre Turkia, whose 5 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

Dennis Amoako leads the rout of Sapovnela

15‑0, and Dennis Amoako took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Lokomotivi tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Aleksandre Turkia at 19 — 9.86

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Aleksandre Turkia did not need any: 9.86, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Frank Chileshe scores twice — 8.43

Two goals and a mark of 8.43 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

A brace, and David Asayure takes the afternoon — 8.35

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. David Asayure provided it, and the 8.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets

Marcos Pedro due for a Lokomotivi medical

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.

Squad

Vasil Khositashvili signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vasil Khositashvili and Lokomotivi agree another 2 years.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Dennis Amoako

Marked 9.96 — 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.

In brief