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Insane signing in Darwin to replace Larsen. Seemingly fitted straight in as a like for like replacement. AI teams have always been bad at signing players and then not playing them to their strengths/even playing them. Expect to see Larsen on the transfer list in 12 months time.

March & April 2024 An unbeaten month to start the new season, a month that has also seen us play Saburtalo at home twice. We then entered April by playing Lokomotivi Tbilisi at home again, like we ended March, scheduling . We then absolutly smashed Krtsanisi in the cup, Tsulaia with six goals and four of them in minutes 20 to 26. That huge win then seemed to knock the stuffing out of us, back-to-back losses against Telavi and Samgurali, although both high scoring affairs. Tsulaia ended the month in good fashion scoring late in a double to get us back to winning ways against Dinamo Batumi before notching another against Torpedo Kutaisi for a draw. We end the two months in 3rd place, level on points with Dinamo Batumi, slightly worse goal difference but ahead of them on virtue of record versus them. Horrendous looking balance. But things could soon change, time will tell.

March 2024 - Transfers At the end of last season we released seven players from their contracts which included a mixture of first team and Rustavi-2 players. We also sold Sylla, freeing up a foreign player spot, he went back to his homeland Mali for a small fee. We signed three players to strengthen two keys areas which were lacking quality and depth. We re-signed Gujabidze on a free, just one season after selling him to Dila. A couple of days later we signed Giorgi Moistsrapishvili from Dinamo Tbilisi for £4k rising to £6k, he will offer depth in CM as a Mezzalla. Signing of the pre-season was Thibaut Aubertin from Senegalese side Generation Foot in a structured deal rising to £47.5k, he will slot straight into RB.

December 2023 - Season Review We ended the season with a loss but it didn't matter in the end as we couldn't move from 5th place, either up nor down. A really good season overall, predicted dead last we managed to win more games than we lost and also ended with a positive goal difference. Highlights were definately beating Dinamo Tbilisi three times. We scored 55 goals which was the third most in the league behind the top two teams in the division, we only failed to score in five games. Rati Ghvaladze ended the season with 26 goals in 22(8) games with 23 of those coming in the league which saw him win top scorer in the league on virtue of having played less games. He had some support from Tsulaia but with only eight goals. Tatenda Jamu was excellent from central midfield, scoring 11 goals and making 13 assists. Ukrainian left winger Artem Lyegostayev made eight assists and scored seven goals. Financially we're in the mud, we'll likely be close to £1m in the red by the start of the new season. However, plans for the new stadium are coming along with a planned capacity of 2918 announced, previously on other saves when I've had a new stadium the board have encorporated that debt into a loan.

November 2023 An unbeaten month where we defeated Dinamo Tbilisi for a third time this season and also ensured survival in the National League. 5th place sealed with one game in December to go.

Ocotber 2023 A queit month with just three games; one win, one draw and one loss. Ghavaladze scoring his 2nd hattrick of the season against Lokomotiv Tbilisi. Still 5th, fourth looks out of reach. We could still finish as low as 8th with four games remaining.

October 2023 - Youth Intake No change. A really poor crop of players. If we were further down the line in the save I wouldn't sign any of them but we need some depth for the U19's/2nd XI.

Thanks Carambau! Enjoyed reading your exploits with Celta Vigo earlier! Didn't know Santi Mina had gone to jail, he had a promising career prior to that.

September 2023 A month of home games. We won the first two against Dila and Telavi. We played well against Dinamo Batumi for a loss and really we should have beaten Samgurali. Still 5th, we could have been in 4th place if we had won a third game this month, although Dinamo Tbilisi have a game in hand. We have seven games remaining.

August 2023 A much, much better month. Finally a win away at Sioni before Ghavaladze smashed four past Dinamo Tbilisi for back-to-back wins. We then lost at home to bottom side Gagra. We did go above Dinamo Tbilisi briefly but that loss saw them leapfrog us again.

July 2023 A surpirse 1-0 win over Dinamo Tbilisi but thats about it. Thats one league win in 12 games. Clinging on to 5th.

July 2023 - Youth Intake Preview Not a great preview.

June 2023 Another poor month with no wins but we did pick up a good point against Dila. We are then defeated by Dila a few days later and dumped from the cup. Settled in mid-table at the moment, we have an eight point cushion to the relegation play-off spots. The balance hits half a million in the red.

June 2023 - Interview Offer Our first job interview offer. Rejected.

May 2023 A poor, poor month with just one point gained in the league. We did defeat Tbilisi (2016) to advance in the cup. I was pleased that we're still scoring goals in most games, we just need to tighten up in defence. We drop down to 5th but still way ahead of expectations.

April 2023 A busy month as we continued to go from strength to strength. Lokomotivi dispatched, Sioni defeated, late wins over Telavi and Dila. However, we tasted our first heavy defeat to the hands of Dinamo Tbilisi. We also won comfortably in the qualifying round of the cup, beating Abuli with new signing Tsulaia notching a hattrick. Table: Includes an extra defeat from May. 2nd after 10 games in balmy, crazy in fact. The aim was 9th, maybe 8th at a push.

Thanks Sheriff!! Good to have you with us.

March 2023 A tough opening fixture against current league champions Dinamo Batumi but we did well, scoring a goal and not being beaten easily. We then faced Torpedo Kutaisi at home and thanks to a late, late injury time goal we picked up our first win of the season. Late mid-March we faced Samgurali who at the time of playing were two from two and top of the table. We fell behind to a penalty in the first half but two goals in two minutes in the second half resulted in another win and another three points. Feels like a false position at the moment but its early days. We made one more signing and spent the remainder of our transfer budget on Temur Tsulaia from Samgurali. At 22 years old, he offers quality x youth, hopefully he will improve with gametime and become our first choice striker for seasons to come. We need to spend short term for long term gains. We'll ignore the balance for the most part.

Jan & Feb 2023 - Pre-Season Promotion brings a few challenges and for us it was improving the squad but first a quick look at the new league. As expected, we're expected to finish in last place (10th) with the likes Gagra and Lokomotiv Tibilisi being quite a bit better than us according to the odds. Obviously 10th place gets automatic relegation whilst teams in 8th and 9th go into the relegation play-off. Squad rules are much of the same but the amount of foreign players has increased to 10. Other than around the 12 players who either retired or were released at the back end of last season, one player left for a fee and that was Gujabidze, who was our starting ball winning midfielder. Dila had offered a similar amount a week prior but I rejected it and as a result he became unhappy and we nearly had a mutiny on our hands so off he went. With the released players, our squad numbers were extremely depleted and we had just 12 players remaining in the first team. In came 10 players. 1 x GK, 4 x CB's, 2 x MC, 1 x LW and 2 x ST's. I won't show all of them but lets look at the foreign players. Cheikne Sylla - signed for free from Martvili, will be 3rd choice striker. Alagie Saine - the first of two signed from Gambian side Falcons FC. One of four centre backs signed, probably a bench player at the moment. Bakary Touray - the other player signed from Falcons FC. Our BWM replacement for the departed Gujabidze. Nexala Mvula - originally a deal struck for the end of his contract in July but for £2.6k I could say no. First choice CB for sure. Tatenda Jamu - another Zimbabwean, signed for £4k from Platinum FC. Will play as a Mezzalla in CM. Artem Lyegostayev - we needed a LW and he was found via a recruitment focus, £26.5k makes him our record signing of the save so far but hopefully worth it. A short pre-season against some lower league sides probably see's us undercooked for the start of the season but time will tell, we open up against current league title holders Dinamo Batumi.

2022 Season Review Season one completed in comprehensive fashion with the league sealed with five games to spare. We finished 17 points clear of 2nd place, scored 17 more goals than the 2nd highest scorers, conceded the 2nd least (behind Martvili with 27) all in all a pretty dominant season. We had an OK run in the Davit Kipiani's Cup eventually losing to Dinamo Zg. in the Third Round. Transfers wise, we made just three additions to the squad under my tenure whilst we allowed three players to leave on free's loaned out four and sold one for upwards of £50k. Squad wise we can't look beyond Rati Ghvaladze as player of the season, his 39 goals in all competitions, including 34 in the league (crowned as the leagues top scorer) and six hattricks propelled us to the title, he will get a chance in the top flight next season. The on loan midfielder Nikoloz Tskhovrebashvili was our most creative player with 10 assists whilst Japanese winger Nakano made seven but also scored nine goals. Zimbabwean winger/striker Musikiri, a summer signing from his hometown club Dyanamos Harare scored eight goals in 19 games. Off the pitch, we didn't invest any money due to lack of financial resources but we have announced plans for a new stadium with its location, capacity and name yet to be decided. Anything above the current 500 capacity stadium will be seen as a step in the right direction. Financially we're not in a good place but hopefully the promotion to the top flight will bring incentives and opportunities for new sponsorship, better players becoming interested in signing for us and the chance to make a profit on any good player we can find, nurture and move on to bigger and better things. We received £43k for winning the league but it did little to make a dent in the current finances.

November 2022 Two games to end the season. We were back to full strength against Dinamo Zg. and that showed with a 4-0 demolition including hattrick number six of the season for Ghvaladze. We then lost to Merani to kind of end the season on a sour note. 17 points clear of 2nd place with a huge goal difference. A full season review later on after I get back home.

October 2022 It took one game in October to be crowned champions. As we beat, then 2nd placed Samtredia 4-2 thanks to a 5th hattrick of the season from Ghvaladze in front of a capacity crowd. We backed that win up with another two before inexplicably ended our unbeaten run which had extended to 21 games, we did rotate quite heavily but we should have had enough for a point against Spaeri. We maintained a 16 point gap to Samtredia in 2nd place, there are two games remaining against 3rd placed Dinamo Zg. and 5th placed Merani.

October 2022 - Youth Intake The intake has improved from the preview. One elite talent in Vakhtang Tkemaladze, an inverted left back, he could provide some back-up if he improves well. I prefer top talent Zurab Barbakadze though, one of five centre backs who came through in this intake. Beyond those two there isn't much else but poor potential.

September 2022 We're now 18 games unbeaten in the league but we ended the month poorly in my opinion, we should have beaten both Gareji and Martvili but we have to factor in that both were away games. We extend our lead at the top of the table to 16 points with six games remaining and a possible 18 points to collect. Another £20k loss this month.

August 2022 An unbeaten month as we extend our lead at the top of the table to 11 points. Disappointingly we drop points against Spaeri who are in the bottom three. 27 games played and nine remaining, we could seal the title at the end of September. Ghvaladze up to 24 league goals and 29 for the season in 26(1) games. We continue to lose money, we'll need to pick up some cheap African's and look to sell on for profit soon.