The Suva Courier
Market6 Mar 2028
Giga Abramishvili asks to leave Suva
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Suva tie Osea Prasad down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Graduation day at Suva
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Ramzan Khan stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ramzan Khan and Suva agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Alfie Rogers 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
One of our own: Christopher Sauturaga joins the Suva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christopher Sauturaga is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Mar 2028
Isikeli Ravai steps up from the Suva academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Isikeli Ravai 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Suva promote Maleli Bari from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maleli 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Panapasa Tawakece gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Ajesh Chand
- Player ratings Simione Nabenu was the difference for Suva
- Boardroom Suva turn down the training-ground plan