From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom21 Feb 2028
Pressure builds in the Nadi boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market21 Feb 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nadi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market21 Feb 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nadi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Match14 Feb 2028
Nadi sink to position 10
11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market14 Feb 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nadi can pretend not to have heard.
Market14 Feb 2028
Beniamino Cama has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nadi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
The numbers do not look good at Nadi
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad14 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Nilkash Prasad
“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.
Market14 Feb 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nadi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Crisis
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
Pressure builds in the Nadi boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market24 Jan 2028
“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.
Market24 Jan 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nadi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad24 Jan 2028
19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market24 Jan 2028
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Nadi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market24 Jan 2028
6 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Nadi money.
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Crisis
Market6 Dec 2027
Ratu Halstead has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nadi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonetani Buksh
“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.
Market6 Dec 2027
The name of Pauliasi Tulivou keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nadi say nothing, which says plenty.
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Crisis
Match22 Nov 2027
Nadi are in real trouble now
Position 10, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market22 Nov 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nadi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Nov 2027
“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.
Market22 Nov 2027
He is 18, and nobody at Nadi signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Boardroom22 Nov 2027
Nadi counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Nadi now.
Market22 Nov 2027
The name of Vishant Reddy keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nadi say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market13 Sep 2027
Ratu Halstead has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nadi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“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.
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Beniamino Cama has come up in conversations Nadi were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market13 Sep 2027
Nadroga are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Nadi will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market13 Sep 2027
“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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nadi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Market16 Aug 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nadi can pretend not to have heard.
Market16 Aug 2027
Nadroga come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Nadi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market16 Aug 2027
Nasinu are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Nadi will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market16 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Elvis Raju 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 Nadi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Somebody else's move, somebody else's headline. What it left at Nadi is an empty peg and a footballer who keeps glancing at it.
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Uneasy
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
93% of the income goes out in wages at Nadi
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Mohammed Ayman keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nadi say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Eneriko Matau has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
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Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
“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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Eneriko Matau and Nadi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nadi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonetani Buksh
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The name of Vishant Reddy keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nadi say nothing, which says plenty.
Market11 Jan 2027
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Manit Lal arrives at Nadi with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.