Lungelo Nguse

Striker - Maritzburg United
19 Sep 2026
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Marked for Lungelo Nguse

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The Maritzburg United Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

A brace, and Thulani Khune takes the afternoon — 9.15

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Thulani Khune provided it, and the 9.15 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market31 Aug 2026

Saziso Magawana hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Maritzburg United can pretend not to have heard.

Market31 Aug 2026

Maritzburg United turn down Chippa United for Luphumlo Sifumba

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Kyle Jurgens runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Risen Albert

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Maritzburg United have done the hard part with University of Pretoria, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Tobías Ramírez turns down Maritzburg United

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

Terrence Mashego 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 Maritzburg United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Maritzburg United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brooklyn Poggenpoel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Door shut on Lautaro Torres

Maritzburg United asked and Temperley said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief

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The Maritzburg United Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Lungelo Nguse gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lungelo Nguse has just signed for Maritzburg United, and for once the answer mattered.

Market3 Aug 2026

Ayanda Mtshali 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 Maritzburg United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Darren Keet signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Darren Keet and Maritzburg United agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Maritzburg United

Terrence Mashego 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Brooklyn Poggenpoel 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Awal Auta

Maritzburg United asked and Nasarawa United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market3 Aug 2026

Bidvest Wits join the queue for Nhlonipho Mtshali

Add another name to the list: Bidvest Wits have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Nhlonipho Mtshali. The answer from Maritzburg United has not changed — yet.

Market3 Aug 2026

Still no ink between Maritzburg United and Darren Keet

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Maritzburg United, another week without a signature from Darren Keet.

Market3 Aug 2026

49 months and counting on Kyle Jurgens

Still no offer on the table, and Kyle Jurgens’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief