Taufik Rustam

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Maluku Utara United
7 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Taufik Rustam

5 Edition

The Maluku Utara United Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Igor Inocêncio 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.

Market

Bhayangkara Presisi come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Maluku Utara United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

No end in sight to Maluku Utara United's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Maluku Utara United has to find a result from somewhere.

Market

Taufik Rustam asks to leave Maluku Utara United

“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.

Market

Bali United watching Rizky Pellu

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Maluku Utara United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match

Maluku Utara United come up short against Persik

Persik left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Maluku Utara United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. França 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.

Squad

Mardani Majid out for 49 days

The medical room confirms 49 days on the sidelines for Mardani Majid, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Manahati Lestusen

“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.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Maluku Utara United Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Igor Inocêncio damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Maluku Utara United

Ciro 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.

Market

Fredyan Wahyu attracts admirers

The name of Fredyan Wahyu has come up in conversations Maluku Utara United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

A bad afternoon for Maluku Utara United against Dewa United

0‑2 to Dewa United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Alan

“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.

Squad

Words at Maluku Utara United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. França 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.

In brief