Anare Goundar

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Labasa
31 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Anare Goundar

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The Labasa Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

$4.0K settles it between the clubs for Uzayr Buksh

Rewa have accepted the money. What Labasa do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 8 in, 1 out at Labasa

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market

Business is business: Jitoko Vulava goes

Rewa paid $27.0K and Labasa took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Words exchanged at Labasa

Ashnil Raju 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 targets

The window shuts on the Malakai Swamy deal

Labasa ran out of time with Tailevu Naitasiri. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad

A row about effort at Labasa

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ilaisa Vulimainavuso was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

International break empties Labasa

5 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.

Squad

Anare Goundar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Anare Goundar commits to Labasa for another 3 years.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Anare Goundar

“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.

In brief

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The Labasa Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Lautoka tell Labasa: Atunaisa Naucukidi is not for sale

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.

Squad

Akeimi Ralulu 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 Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Samuela Begg steps up from the Labasa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Samuela Begg has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Labasa promote Anare Goundar from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anare Goundar has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Labasa promote Amani Verevou from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Amani Verevou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Labasa promote Misaele Tiko from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Misaele Tiko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief