Jack Clark

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
16 Apr 2045
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887 Edition

The Navua Chronicle

27 Jul 2043
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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

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881 Edition

The Navua Chronicle

15 Jun 2043
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Navua sink to position 8

14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Player ratings

Mitchell Glasson scores twice — 8.59

Two goals and a mark of 8.59 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Jack Clark puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Navua, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Josh Damevski: 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.” Navua have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

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.

Match

Ba take the points off Navua

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Navua

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

The Navua debt reaches $7.1M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

In brief