Thales

Central Defender - Persija
29 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Thales

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The Persija Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

The knee: Arlyansyah Abdulmanan out for 103 days

103 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Persija lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Persija march on in the cup

PSBS Biak are out and Persija go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad

A fracture rules Thales out for 140 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Persija will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Cruel end for PSBS Biak as Persija pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Persija scored in the 126th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Match

Alexander Jeremejeff breaks Bali United hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Alexander Jeremejeff scored in the 89th minute, Bali United had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Persija took the lot.

Player ratings

Both of them Alexander Jeremejeff's — 8.88

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.88, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Persija cannot stop winning

5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Market

Dony Tri Pamungkas 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 The request is on a desk at Persija, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Bali United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Persija did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

In brief

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The Persija Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

149 days out for Thales after a fracture

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

Player ratings

Alaaeddine Ajaraie, 33, rolls back the years — 7.98

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.98 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match

Persija cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Alexander Jeremejeff 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 Persija this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Theo Leeming

At 18 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Persija see off Borneo

Three points for Persija, 2‑0 the final word against Borneo in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

Bali United join the queue for Dony Tri Pamungkas

Add another name to the list: Bali United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dony Tri Pamungkas. The answer from Persija has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Alexander Jeremejeff

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Jasper Hartog is in the works

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

In brief