Yeldos Postnikov

Left Midfielder - Lautoka
13 Mar 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Yeldos Postnikov

89 Edition

The Lautoka Herald

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Lautoka are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 11 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Raymond Daniels signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Raymond Daniels and Lautoka agree another 1 years.

Squad

Words at Lautoka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sairusi Nalaubu 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.

Match

Ilaisa Vulimainavuso sends Lautoka past Suva

It finished 2‑1, and it was Ilaisa Vulimainavuso’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lautoka.

Market

No place for Edwin Sahayan in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Edwin Sahayan has his answer from Lautoka; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad

No hiding place for Penisoni Tirau

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

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Ilaisa Vulimainavuso

A mark of 7.55, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Yeldos Postnikov 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.

Player ratings

Shivam Naidu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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80 Edition

The Lautoka Herald

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Lautoka

Sitiveni Cavuilagi 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.

Squad

Lautoka lose Shivam Naidu

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Sairusi Nalaubu 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.

Squad

Sakaraia Naisua signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sakaraia Naisua commits to Lautoka for another 1 years.

Market

Lautoka buy the years ahead of Mandla Dala

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Atonio Tuivuna linked with a move away

The name of Atonio Tuivuna keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lautoka say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

56 Edition

The Akzhaiyk Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Rayan Al-Mousa 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 Akzhaiyk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Seun Ogunribide 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.

Loan watch

Serikzhan Kuat wants to come home

“I did not go to Aktobe to sit and watch. I want to come back to Akzhaiyk and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 26 matches say the rest.

Squad

Marat Islamkhan has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Akzhaiyk will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Rinat Postnikov

“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.

Market

The Azat Tymoshchuk question follows Akzhaiyk around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Azat Tymoshchuk’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief