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The Maritzburg United Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Jan 2027

82 days out for Athini Jodwana after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Maritzburg United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market25 Jan 2027

Letsie Koapeng 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.

Market25 Jan 2027

Nhlonipho Mtshali is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Maritzburg United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

Door shut on Youssouf Simpara

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

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Maritzburg United

Terrence Mashego 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.

Squad25 Jan 2027

A row about effort at Maritzburg United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Brooklyn Poggenpoel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Kyle Jurgens

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

A loan move for Luke Daniels is in the works

Maritzburg United have made the call to University of Pretoria. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets25 Jan 2027

A loan move for Dušan Jovanović is in the works

Maritzburg United have made the call to Radnicki Nis. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

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23 Edition

The Maritzburg United Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad4 Jan 2027

A one-man rearguard from Darren Keet

There were 14 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match2 Jan 2027

Maritzburg United taken apart

0‑3 to Bloemfontein Celtic, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Athini Jodwana breaks a bone — 103 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market4 Jan 2027

Kyle Jurgens puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Maritzburg United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Nelson Ralenkoane arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nelson Ralenkoane has, at Maritzburg United, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match2 Jan 2027

Maritzburg United cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Maritzburg United

Terrence Mashego and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market4 Jan 2027

Nhlonipho Mtshali attracts admirers

The name of Nhlonipho Mtshali has come up in conversations Maritzburg United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Boardroom4 Jan 2027

Nobody left the Maritzburg United dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief