The Maluku Utara United Chronicle
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nílson Júnior
92 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maluku Utara United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Taufik Rustam
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Taufik Rustam will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Maluku Utara United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Maluku Utara United
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match6 Feb 2027
3 matches without a goal for Maluku Utara United
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Maluku Utara United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khalifa Mubarak 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Egy Sucipto joins the Maluku Utara United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Egy Sucipto is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Fachri Firmansyah joins the Maluku Utara United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Fachri Firmansyah is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
Maluku Utara United promote Kurniawan Wibowo from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kurniawan Wibowo 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
A bad afternoon for Maluku Utara United against Persib
0‑1 to Persib, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Maluku Utara United
- Squad Frets Butuan dropped after a run of poor form
- Squad A season on the outside for Khalifa Mubarak