The Labasa Post
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
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.
Market7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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 dugout7 Sep 2026
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
- The dugout Misaele Tiko is still paying for one afternoon at Labasa
- Market Christopher Wasasala linked with a move away
- The dugout Nemani Dolodai has become a man the manager trusts