Sávio

Defensive Midfielder - PSM
31 Aug 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Sávio

4 Edition

The PSM Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for PSM

0‑0 against Dewa United, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Hilman Syah keeps PSM in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Akbar Tanjung 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 PSM can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Sávio delivers — 7.98

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Sávio scored, was marked 7.98, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market

PSM say no — this time

The offer from Madura United for Sávio was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

PSM go back to the board over Rangga Muslim

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $11.4K — a club that wants Rangga Muslim enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

PSM make their move for Ilhamsyah

$31.0K on the table at Madura United. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad

Tempers go at PSM

Hilman Syah 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.

Transfer targets

PSM baulk at the price for Asyraq Gufron

Semen Padang wanted more than $32.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

In brief