The Maritzburg United Chronicle
Squad9 Aug 2027
The knee: Melusi Buthelezi out for 119 days
119 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Maritzburg United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market9 Aug 2027
Terms done: Aden Dreyer is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Polokwane City waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Maritzburg United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match7 Aug 2027
Nobody wins at Maritzburg United
15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market9 Aug 2027
Kagiso Malinga 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.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Reece Braithwaite says Maritzburg United went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Thabo Nodada was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
No thanks: Agustín Medina rejects the move
Maritzburg United had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Lanús, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Maritzburg United
Thabo Nodada and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Maritzburg United
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Maritzburg United
- Transfer targets Door shut on Tobías Rubio
- Market One of our own: Themba Furman joins the Maritzburg United first team