Guy Solomon

Goalkeeper - Maluku Utara United
27 May 2032
Thursday
Process

Marked for Guy Solomon

286 Edition

The Maluku Utara United Chronicle

19 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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.

Market

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 dugout

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 targets

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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

Back issues
270 Edition

The Maluku Utara United Chronicle

29 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Vico 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Roie Tamam

“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.

Market

No place for Safrudin Tahar in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Safrudin Tahar has his answer from Maluku Utara United; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

The dugout

Vico has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Maluku Utara United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Boardroom

Maluku Utara United can only buy what they sell

Nobody has barred the club from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every incoming name comes with an outgoing one attached.

Market

The Vico question follows Maluku Utara United around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Vico’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Fábio Dias asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Match

Continental football is in reach for Maluku Utara United

67 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

Market

Wahyu Prasetyo runs his contract down

4 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Maluku Utara United money.

In brief

233 Edition

The Maluku Utara United Chronicle

13 Jan 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Asyraq Gufron

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Asyraq Gufron will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Maluku Utara United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Boardroom

Asyraq Gufron has agreed to leave Maluku Utara United for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Maluku Utara United

Alan 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.

Squad

Words at Maluku Utara United training over how hard people work

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Santiago Paulini

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

Market

Maluku Utara United buy the years ahead of Guy Solomon

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Marinus Asnawi stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marinus Asnawi and Maluku Utara United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Safrudin Tahar told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Safrudin Tahar has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Maluku Utara United.

The dugout

Igor Inocêncio gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Igor Inocêncio is on it.

In brief