The Ba Gazette
Squad21 Feb 2028
Rahul Naresh damages knee ligaments — 96 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 96 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad21 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Kalaveti Sivoi out for 79 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ba will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market21 Feb 2028
Misiwani Nairube has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ba they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Ba
Patrick Joseph 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.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
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Squad21 Feb 2028
Kishan Sami falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Lucas Abarca gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lucas Abarca is on it.
Market21 Feb 2028
The Etonia Dogalau story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Etonia Dogalau signs something — a contract at Ba or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market21 Feb 2028
Uzayr Buksh leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Uzayr Buksh leaves Ba the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Tevita Koroi
- Boardroom The Ba board put their names to it