The Maluku Utara United Chronicle
Squad19 Jan 2032
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andri Saddil
14 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.
Market19 Jan 2032
Fábio Dias 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 Maluku Utara United can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout19 Jan 2032
Guy Solomon keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Maluku Utara United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets19 Jan 2032
Isandu Danjuma is a medical away from Maluku Utara United
The deal with Bali United is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad19 Jan 2032
Roie Tamam 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 Maluku Utara United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets19 Jan 2032
Door shut on Ricky Nugroho
Maluku Utara United asked and Persik said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad19 Jan 2032
A row about effort at Maluku Utara United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Roy Buganim was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Jan 2032
Too much change too quickly at Maluku Utara United
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Boardroom19 Jan 2032
Maluku Utara United have to sell first
The manager has a list and the board has a condition attached to it. That is not a crisis — half of football works this way — but it decides which of the two of them gets his way in August.
In brief
- The dugout Roy Buganim knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout When it matters, Ritsu Minamino plays
- Market Wahyu Prasetyo runs his contract down