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The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

122 days out for France Catarogo after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tailevu Naitasiri will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout

Rajneel Kumar: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tailevu Naitasiri have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

Tailevu Naitasiri told to sell

The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.

Match

The wait goes on for Tailevu Naitasiri

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Iosefo Verevou signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Iosefo Verevou and Tailevu Naitasiri agree another 2 years.

Boardroom

3 academy graduates step up at Tailevu Naitasiri

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

The dugout

Sakiusa Saqiri frozen out at Tailevu Naitasiri

This is not rotation. Sakiusa Saqiri has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Tailevu Naitasiri is pretending otherwise.

Match

Tailevu Naitasiri come up short against Ba

Ba left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Anare Krishna steps up from the Tailevu Naitasiri academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anare Krishna 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.

In brief