The Ba Gazette
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kalaveti Sivoi
91 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ba lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Ba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darold Kakasi 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Ba sign Tevita Jale, one for the future
Tevita Jale is 14, and Ba 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
A long bet from Ba on Ilaisa Sauturaga
He is 14, and nobody at Ba signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nabil Begg has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Ba 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The Leandro Ruiz question follows Ba around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Leandro Ruiz’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Market Window shut, Aiyush Kumar still here
- Squad Questions about Etonia Dogalau on the training pitch