From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Walid Al Kamali and Lokomotivi agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Crisis
Market14 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lokomotivi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Match10 Dec 2026
Korona left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Artur Bogusz gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The team sheet said everything about Antonio González
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Antonio González.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 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.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Dennis Amoako: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lokomotivi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market30 Nov 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 Lokomotivi can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gegi Geguchadze, and the manager let it.
Match26 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Luka Archaia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lokomotivi.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The team sheet said everything about Kıvanç Küçükkarış
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Kıvanç Küçükkarış.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad23 Nov 2026
30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lokomotivi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
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Crisis
Match5 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Lokomotivi
9 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.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 6 of the 26 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Nov 2026
Sergey Bugriev scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Thun, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Ole-Monrad Alme
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Antonio González will call it something else in private.
Squad9 Nov 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 Lokomotivi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A mark of 5.64 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Market2 Nov 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 Lokomotivi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to César Aponte, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match22 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Lokomotivi's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Lokomotivi has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Emmanuel Boansi: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Lokomotivi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad26 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 63 days on the sidelines for César Aponte, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Thun leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lokomotivi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kıvanç Küçükkarış, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antonio González, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Dennis Amoako 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 Lokomotivi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Herald Marku joins up with his country. Lokomotivi lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Lokomotivi could get for him.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Luka Archaia keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lokomotivi say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match1 Oct 2026
0‑3 against Korona, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match1 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Lokomotivi
7 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.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 26 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
24 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad5 Oct 2026
César Aponte left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; César Aponte will call it something else in private.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Lokomotivi dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Uneasy
Market28 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Lokomotivi
6 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Lokomotivi did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.49 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad28 Sep 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 Lokomotivi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lasha Ozbetelashvili will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lokomotivi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Lokomotivi
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Lokomotivi are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
Whatever happens, Lokomotivi do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Agron Rufati, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The team sheet said everything about Kıvanç Küçükkarış
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Kıvanç Küçükkarış.
Match17 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's afternoon for Ján Gregus
Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 41, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Antonio González, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Ján Gregus
A mark of 7.52, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Saburtalo came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
Sapovnela come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lokomotivi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 56 days on the sidelines for Mehrubon Karimov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ole-Monrad Alme, and the manager let it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Upbeat
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
Chikhura come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lokomotivi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kıvanç Küçükkarış, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.40 — 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 8.27 — 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Antonio González trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Triumph
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lokomotivi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ján Gregus 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Dennis Amoako’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lokomotivi.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.87 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Giorgi Todua
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kıvanç Küçükkarış trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Dennis Amoako keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lokomotivi say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Lokomotivi out
Out, 0‑1 to Samtredia, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ján Gregus gets it from the manager
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Sioni, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Herald Marku 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. Lokomotivi know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lokomotivi, another week without a signature from Agron Rufati.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Ján Gregus
A mark of 7.84, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑2 against Samtredia, and it could have been more.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Dennis Amoako, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sapovnela come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lokomotivi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ján Gregus 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 Lokomotivi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.81, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vasil Khositashvili and Lokomotivi agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Lokomotivi have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Gegi Geguchadze and Lokomotivi agree another 4 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Vasil Khositashvili is back at Lokomotivi, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Gegi Geguchadze 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.86 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Lokomotivi, 2‑0 the final word against Sapovnela in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.59 — 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Gegi Geguchadze
“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.