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Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alipate Ravai 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Nadi
Nilkash Prasad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Nadi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohammed Ayman was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The training reports on Rocky Junior are not good
A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Labasa waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Nadi is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 10 in, 0 out at Nadi
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 10 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lautoka have kept their man, and Nadi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Nadi
Panapasa Tawakece was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Ask me in the summer. I will know before anybody else does.” He is 34 with 85 appearances behind him, and Nadi have to plan for both answers.
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Steady
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rewa have kept their man, and Nadi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nadi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Nadi
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Nadi
0‑4 against Rewa, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A cup embarrassment at Rewa follows Nadi home
0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Nadi asked and Rewa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Nadi
Panapasa Tawakece and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Doors closed at Nadi
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tevita Kumar after 0‑4, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roy Singh commits to Nadi for another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Nadi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohammed Ayman was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Nadi
A 4‑2 win over Nadroga, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match12 Aug 2026
Rocky Junior wins it after the whistle should have gone
106 minutes played. Rocky Junior found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Nadroga went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.61 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
What a way to start for Sakaraia Lal — 7.63
0 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.63 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Rewa keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Nadi
Vishant Reddy was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ba have kept their man, and Nadi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Nadi people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nasinu come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Nadi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Nadi
Vishant Reddy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Beniamino Bari 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Isikeli Qaraniqio is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tuiba Batiratu and Nadi agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Nadi
Vishant Reddy and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Apisai Sesewa has come up in conversations Nadi were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Nadi has picked up the phone to Tuiba Batiratu
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nadi are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Nadi training over how hard people work
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Market
Apisai Sesewa told to find a new club