From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nadi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market15 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Nilkash Prasad
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad15 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Pauliasi Tulivou has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Nadi 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.
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Uneasy
Squad8 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nadi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Suva is saying, and nobody at Nadi is enjoying the guessing.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Filipe Cama 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Maleli Nakaci 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Rocky Junior gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Rocky Junior is on it.
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Uneasy
Squad1 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nadi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market1 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Lautoka waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Nadi is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 2 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Nadi until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market1 Feb 2027
Nadi say no — this time
The offer from Tailevu Naitasiri for Alipate Sorovi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The deal with Suva is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Nadi asked and Labasa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Nadi will try again when the window opens; Tailevu Naitasiri may not be selling by then.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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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Uneasy
Squad25 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market25 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Lautoka have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jonasa Ravukitiliva. The answer from Nadi has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Nadi
Nilkash Prasad 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Mohammed Ayman 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Alipate Sorovi has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Nadi 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.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nadi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Nadi
Nilkash Prasad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nadi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Nadi asked and Navua said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Epeli Waqa 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marlon Raju 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.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nadi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad4 Jan 2027
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Nadi have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market4 Jan 2027
Nasinu are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Nadi will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Nadi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammed Ayman is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Open for business: Nadi enter the window
The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Nikesh Singh knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nadi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market4 Jan 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Apisai Sesewa leaves Nadi the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market4 Jan 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Ratu Saimoni Nabogi leaves Nadi the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nadi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 Dec 2026
Only the photograph left for Apisai Sesewa
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Apisai Sesewa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nadi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Nadi
Nilkash Prasad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nadi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marlon Nailatikau 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.
Squad14 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tuiba Batiratu damages knee ligaments — 16 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 16 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nadi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad7 Dec 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.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tuiba Batiratu damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Nov 2026
Apisai Sesewa has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nadi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tuiba Batiratu
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Tevita Ravia out for 124 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nadi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tuiba Batiratu
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 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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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
45 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nadi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad9 Nov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Nikesh Singh asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tuiba Batiratu
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nadi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Nadi
Nilkash Prasad 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alipate Sorovi is on it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Nadi and Nikesh Singh are talking past each other
“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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Nikesh Singh knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nadi, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tuiba Batiratu
59 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Nadi
Nilkash Prasad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 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.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
66 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nadi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad19 Oct 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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Rocky Junior has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Nadi 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tuiba Batiratu
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tuiba Batiratu damages knee ligaments — 80 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 80 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market5 Oct 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nadi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad5 Oct 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.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
87 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nadi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
94 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nadi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tuiba Batiratu damages knee ligaments — 101 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 101 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Samuela Cama 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.
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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tuiba Batiratu
108 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nadi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 14 in, 1 out at Nadi
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nadi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market7 Sep 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Suva moved on, Ratu Saimoni Nabogi reports back to Nadi, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
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
Words exchanged at Nadi
Nilkash Prasad 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Siotame Kubu is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Siotame Kubu has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nadi have started building around Elvis Raju
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
116 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nadi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Rewa pay $4.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Lautoka: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tuiba Batiratu damages knee ligaments — 123 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 123 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nadi say no — this time
The offer from Ba for Nikesh Singh was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets24 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.
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Suva have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Apisai Sesewa. The answer from Nadi has not changed — yet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alipate Sorovi and Nadi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Rocky Junior has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Nadi 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.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tuiba Batiratu damages knee ligaments — 130 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 130 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match12 Aug 2026
Nadi out of the cup
Nadroga ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A debut Alipate Sorovi will not forget — 7.42
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.42 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
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
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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Nikesh Singh again, and this time the name on the line is Ba. Nadi are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
137 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nadi lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Suva is saying, and nobody at Nadi is enjoying the guessing.
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Malakai Tuyaga joins the Nadi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Malakai Tuyaga is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kolinio Prasad 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.
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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 interest is real enough to have reached print. Nadi have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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
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The dugout
Clivert Sam keeps his manager's vote