The Ba Gazette
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ben van Dorssen signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ben van Dorssen commits to Ba for another 4 years.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Door shut on Mitchell Glasson
Ba asked and Sydney FC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Ba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kavian Rahmani 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Ba
Nathan Garrow and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Jack Warshawsky has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Ba know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
When it matters, Suliano Tawanakoro plays
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.
In brief
- Market Ben van Dorssen linked with a move away
- Market Epeli Nailatikau leaves for nothing
- Market Darold Kakasi leaves on loan
- The dugout The manager comes out for Peceli Sukabula