Ciro

Striker - Maluku Utara United
2 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ciro

24 Edition

The Maluku Utara United Chronicle

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets

Ofer Weisz turns down Maluku Utara United

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Bali United tell Maluku Utara United: Ricky Fajrin is not for sale

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.

Squad

Words at Maluku Utara United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yacob Sayuri 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.

Transfer targets

Maluku Utara United ask about Eksel Runtukahu

A loan enquiry to Persija: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Fredyan Wahyu told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Fredyan Wahyu has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Maluku Utara United.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Angga Saputra

“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.

Market

Igor Inocêncio linked with a move away

The name of Igor Inocêncio keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Maluku Utara United say nothing, which says plenty.

Loan watch

The goals keep arriving from Vico’s exile

6 goals in 8 games at Dewa United — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Maluku Utara United updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

The dugout

Yance Sayuri has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Maluku Utara United 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.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Maluku Utara United Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Vintage Ciro — 7.83

At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.83, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Alwi Slamat 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 Maluku Utara United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Fariz Alfitrah gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Fariz Alfitrah has just signed for Maluku Utara United, and for once the answer mattered.

Match

Maluku Utara United end the wait against Arema

It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

Match

Maluku Utara United get the job done against Arema

A 1‑0 win over Arema, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Goal number 50 for Ciro

50 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Squad

Tempers go at Maluku Utara United

França 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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Septian David

A mark of 7.96, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

Yacob Sayuri 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.

In brief