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Mretebi fared less well the following season, finishing sixteenth out of seventeen teams, and in 1994 they were relegated after winning only three matches all season. The club subsequently had league finishes in the lower reaches of the Second
Division. In 1995 former Mretebi player Kinkladze joined
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Mretebi claiming $ 875,000 in unpaid fees. A decision by FIFA in 2000 ordered Dinamo to pay $ 300,000. Dinamo paid this sum in 2001, but the cost of the case and that of subsequent claims and appeals meant that Mretebi, by now playing in the lower echelons of the Georgian football
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Tbilisi for £2 million. As part of the deal which took Kinkladze to Dinamo, Mretebi were entitled to a proportion of any sell-on fee, but Dinamo refused to pay. A lengthy dispute in which the matter was referred to the
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agreed a transfer fee of one million roubles for the player. However, once
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