Marked for Raneshwar Goundar
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rishal Shankar and Suva agree another 4 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Josua Raqamu 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 Suva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Suva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 36 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Suva
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Boardroom
87% of the income goes out in wages at Suva
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The dugout
Peniasi Rotidara knocks on the manager's door
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Suva
Akuila Mateisuva 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mitieli Naiviro is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Suva have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market7 Sep 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 Suva can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 13 in, 0 out at Suva
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 13 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ba have kept their man, and Suva go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The clock did what Nadi would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Remueru Tekiate is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Tailevu Naitasiri, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Suva asked and Ba said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Suva
Remueru Tekiate and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Suva people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Labasa this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Suva
Akuila Mateisuva 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Nickel Goundar joins the Suva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nickel Goundar is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Peni Waqa joins the Suva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peni Waqa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amitesh Krishna is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ba have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.