Khizanishvili joins Magpies on loan

Newcastle have signed Georgia international defender Zurab Khizanishvili on a three-month loan deal from Premier League side Blackburn.

Khizanishvili: Three-month loan
Khizanishvili: Three-month loan

The 27-year-old will go straight into the squad for Saturday's Championship clash with Plymouth at St James' Park.

Tbilisi-born Khizanishvili, who has 62 senior international caps to his name, began his career with Dinamo Tbilisi, and after spells with city rivals FC Tbilisi and then Lokomotiv Tbilisi, made his way to Scotland and Dundee, and then Rangers.

He joined Blackburn in a £500,000 move during the summer of 2006 after spending a successful season on loan at Ewood Park.

However, he has found himself surplus to requirements at Rovers during the current campaign and has made just one senior appearance, in a 3-1 Carling Cup second-round victory at Gillingham.

Your Comments

KingLedley26 (Tottenham Hotspur fan)

"rogue84 (York City fan) - I can understand long words mate, shame you cant spell them though. And Chylout (Newcastle United fan) I wasn't calling everyone morons, just you Newcastle fans

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chipperNUFC (Newcastle United fan)

"i would love to see rangers and celtic to come into the prem so theyd go straight into championship! scottish football is all effort but very little quality and its pretty embarising if you dnt get in at least the qualifiers for the CL judging by the other teams in your league! "

Chylout (Newcastle United fan)

"you read all the posts on here, you then read kingledley26's contribution calling every one morons, and you just have to laugh. If anyone was more suited to that description...."

rogue84 (York City fan)

"kingledley - i like the patronising attitude towards a lower league team. obviously those players would get in York's team (apart from Bentley).

that's not exactly the point though is it, it's the comparitavely rubbish level of players compared to the ambitions and finances available to the club involved......hope you understood that sentance there's a few long words..."

imnufc (Newcastle United fan)

"lol @ throb - Rangers are desperate to join the Premiership but won't be allowed as they won't bring enough quality so all you can do is talk rubbish at the toon. Cousins who mate, we haven't signed anyone of that name, and not only that I think you will find Zurab will be going home in 3 months after his loan period so get a grip... even the fizzy pop league makes the Scottish prem look like a bunch of Sunday leaguers... bye bye!"

joeyvontonk (Blackburn Rovers fan)

"hands down better than coloccini!throb (Rangers fan) nice one mate, come back when you start playing real teams on a saturday you clown. Like when your 'best ever player ever' came to Blackburn aka Barry Ferguson in his 'prime' to test himself."

toon_matt (Newcastle United fan)

"throb, You idiot, I'd rather be in the English league 2 than in the SPL, LOL you are in the champions league!!! You will get knocked out soon like you do every year, Rangers and Scottish football are crap mate, Really crap.

Rangers would struggle in the league we are in.

PS You have been a Rangers fan for that long you forgot about Boumsong!!!

And KingLedley26, Crawl back under your stone you Southern fairy."

throb (Rangers fan)

"I love this. ANOTHER EX RANGERS PLAYER. The amount of crap we used to get from the NUFC fans on the Scottish page and now all you can do is sign ex gers. Lovenkrands, Cousin and now Zurab. The bottom line is you WISH you were Rangers, but then of course you do, we are in the Champions league, you are in the Championship."

KingLedley26 (Tottenham Hotspur fan)

"haha, how easy do you geordie mugs get wound up!! Rogue84, all them players would walk into your team. partizanovec, is it only Newcastle fans who can comment on this story then? sfosteruk, I like your ambition!!! and donjuan, fancy fishing the weekend???

Morons!

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