Amani Kumar

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475 Edition

The Suva Courier

3 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Sep 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Mitieli Naiviro

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Suva lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom3 Sep 2035

Suva put Epeli Baledrokadroka on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom3 Sep 2035

Crisis meeting at Suva

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad3 Sep 2035

Filipe Ravai says Suva went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market3 Sep 2035

Only the photograph left for Marlon Matai

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marlon Matai will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Suva the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad3 Sep 2035

Simione Nabenu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simione Nabenu and Suva agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Sep 2035

Tempers go at Suva

Nishal Sharma 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.

Market3 Sep 2035

The Simione Nabenu talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Suva know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market3 Sep 2035

Amani Kumar placed on the list

Suva have made Amani Kumar available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
446 Edition

The Suva Courier

12 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match12 Feb 2035

Suva are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 31 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market12 Feb 2035

Malakai Matai puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Suva, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market12 Feb 2035

Only the photograph left for Marlon Matai

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Marlon Matai will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Suva the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Feb 2035

Nishal Sharma 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 Suva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Feb 2035

Malakai Waqa signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Malakai Waqa commits to Suva for another 3 years.

Squad12 Feb 2035

No hiding place for Nickel Kaumaitotoya

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nickel Kaumaitotoya, and the manager let it.

In brief

443 Edition

The Suva Courier

22 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad22 Jan 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Joeli Ranitu

28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Suva lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom22 Jan 2035

The scrutiny sharpens at Suva

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Suva is running low.

Squad22 Jan 2035

At 19, Misaele Sauturaga is already the best thing here

An average of 7.36 in a first team he is several years too young for. Suva have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.

Market22 Jan 2035

Nasinu come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Suva did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market22 Jan 2035

Only the photograph left for Misaele Sauturaga

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Misaele Sauturaga will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Suva the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad22 Jan 2035

Tempers go at Suva

Joeli Ranitu 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.

In brief