The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette
Market6 Mar 2028
Rajneel Kumar 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Jason Dau has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tailevu Naitasiri they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
The Tailevu Naitasiri board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Eric Gichimu signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Eric Gichimu commits to Tailevu Naitasiri for another 2 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Tailevu Naitasiri
Eric Gichimu 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Graduation day at Tailevu Naitasiri
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.
Match4 Mar 2028
Tailevu Naitasiri cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad6 Mar 2028
France Catarogo 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: Peni Tuisese joins the Tailevu Naitasiri first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peni Tuisese is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Akuila Kaumaitotoya steps up from the Tailevu Naitasiri academy
- Match Tailevu Naitasiri come up short against Ba
- Squad The manager makes an example of Eric Gichimu