The Lautoka Herald
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Lautoka go back to the board over Beniamino Lebatavatava
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $42.2K — a club that wants Beniamino Lebatavatava enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $34.0K for Beniamino Lebatavatava
Lautoka have gone to Nadi with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Mohammed Alam 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 Lautoka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Lautoka walk away from Ryan Chandra
$3.0K was the most the club would pay and Nasinu were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Lautoka promote Nickel Bari from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nickel Bari 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Abishek Mocenica joins the Lautoka first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abishek Mocenica is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Anare Mocenica steps up from the Lautoka academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anare Mocenica 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Malakai Tiko steps up from the Lautoka academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Malakai Tiko 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Lautoka
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Junior Anand was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Squad Atunaisa Naucukidi remains an outsider
- Squad The training reports on Joela Biuvanua are not good