The Ba Gazette
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Etonia Dogalau out for 45 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ba will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Aug 2027
Peceli Sukabula is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ba is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market23 Aug 2027
Eyes on Napolioni Sorovi again
The phone has started ringing about Napolioni Sorovi again, and this time the name on the line is Tailevu Naitasiri. Ba are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Patrick Joseph 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Ba promote Christopher Kumar from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christopher Kumar 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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
96% of the income goes out in wages at Ba
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
In brief
- Market The Josaia Cama conversation is coming
- Squad Nabil Begg has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad The manager makes an example of Javohir Iskandarov