The Navua Chronicle
Boardroom27 Jul 2043
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Navua
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market27 Jul 2043
Hugh Watson has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Navua they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad27 Jul 2043
Edgar Sequeira in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Jul 2043
Paulo Araujo 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.
Squad27 Jul 2043
Edgar Sequeira has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Navua 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.
Market27 Jul 2043
Still no ink between Navua and Damien Collins
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Navua, another week without a signature from Damien Collins.
In brief
- Squad Rhys Scott knocks on the manager's door
- Market The clock does Oliver De Vries’s negotiating for him
- Market Navua put Jack Clark up for sale