Setareki Sauturaga

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5 Feb 2031
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Process

Marked for Setareki Sauturaga

235 Edition

The Nadi Sentinel

27 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

47 days out for Shaheel Valentine after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nadi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Bhavneet Singh has said yes to Suva

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Nadi have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Setareki Sauturaga hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nadi can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Ratu Sauturaga will not be coming to Nadi

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ba is saying, and nobody at Nadi is enjoying the guessing.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Nadi rebuffed over Etonia Dogalau

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ba have kept their man, and Nadi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Tevita Ravia 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 Nadi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Callum Colvey

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

The dugout

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In brief

Back issues
233 Edition

The Nadi Sentinel

13 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Shaheel Valentine breaks a bone — 61 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Terms done: Peni Tuinakauvadra is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Navua waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Nadi is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The dugout

Callum Colvey says Nadi 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.

Match

Nadi up to position 3

30 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Nadi say no — this time

The offer from Navua for Callum Colvey was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nadi

Tevita Ravia 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.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Nadi try to borrow Rusiate Sauturaga

Tailevu Naitasiri have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

Nadi sign Setareki Sauturaga, one for the future

Setareki Sauturaga is 19, and Nadi have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

137 Edition

The Ospitaletto Sentinel

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Matteo Gualandris 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 Ospitaletto, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Pietro Alberti: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ospitaletto have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Dino Mehic wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Ospitaletto hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Words at Ospitaletto training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leonardo Graziani 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Ospitaletto

Salvatore Pignarosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Ospitaletto come up short against Alcione Milano

Alcione Milano left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match

Alcione Milano end the Ospitaletto run at 4

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

The dugout

Edoardo Donati answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad

Setareki Sauturaga wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Ospitaletto can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief