The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette
Squad7 Dec 2026
The knee: Dave Verevou out for 20 days
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tailevu Naitasiri lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Dec 2026
France Catarogo 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 Tailevu Naitasiri can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Rajneel Singh
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rajneel Singh will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tailevu Naitasiri the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Abhishek Deo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Tailevu Naitasiri
Taniela Rakariva 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Nischal Lal signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nischal Lal and Tailevu Naitasiri agree another 2 years.
In brief
- The dugout Mohammed Rasasa is still paying for one afternoon at Tailevu Naitasiri
- The dugout Altamish Khan gets picked when it counts