Marked for Raul Chandra
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Nasinu
Jone Naraba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout15 Feb 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.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Nasinu, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Nasinu
Sailose Tawake 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The name of Daniel Duvnjak keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nasinu say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ratu Anare keeps his options open
“I will play as long as the body lets me and stop the day it does not.” He is 34, with 83 appearances behind him, and the club has to plan for a decision that is not yet made.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Nasinu
Daniel Duvnjak 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Melbourne City have kept their man, and Nasinu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Lautoka 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Nasinu are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The formation has left Sekove Luma behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Nasinu will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Nasinu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Raul Chandra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nasinu lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Daniel Duvnjak is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Nasinu
Jone Naraba 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Nadroga have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Shainal Lal. The answer from Nasinu has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Ba: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Maciu Tuinuku is in the works
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Squad
Words at Nasinu training over how hard people work
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Market
The Shivam Shandil question follows Nasinu around
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Boardroom
Open for business: Nasinu enter the window
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 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 Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Nasinu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Raul Chandra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Full training, no reaction, and a player who wants to be picked immediately. Nasinu will hold him back a week and he will spend it arguing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Nasinu
Daniel Duvnjak 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Manasa Levaci commits to Nasinu for another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Nasinu
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Raul Chandra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Nasinu
Daniel Duvnjak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Raul Chandra 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Alvish Ram is out on the grass again
He came through the session, took part in everything and finished it smiling. Nasinu will not rush him, and he will spend the next fortnight trying to rush them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 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 Nasinu can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Savenaca Nakalevu has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Nasinu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Waisake Navunigasau 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Nasinu
Jonetani Buksh 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Nasinu have made the call to Nadi. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.