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205 Edition

The Persib Chronicle

1 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 Jul 2030

Andi Jaya damages knee ligaments — 61 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 61 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom1 Jul 2030

The scrutiny sharpens at Persib

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Persib is running low.

Market1 Jul 2030

Only the photograph left for Ikenna Motors

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ikenna Motors will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Persib the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market1 Jul 2030

Angga Saputra asks to leave Persib

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market1 Jul 2030

Persib turn down Madura United for Uchechi Okoye

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Boardroom1 Jul 2030

Iran has agreed to leave Persib 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.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Words exchanged at Persib

Uilliam Barros 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.

Market1 Jul 2030

PSBS Biak are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Persib will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad1 Jul 2030

Pablo Ganet 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.

In brief

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The Persib Chronicle

11 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market11 Mar 2030

Sven Xerri is on his way

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

Player ratings11 Mar 2030

Mauro Zijlstra was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad11 Mar 2030

Words exchanged at Persib

Uilliam Barros 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.

Squad11 Mar 2030

A row about effort at Persib

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

Boardroom11 Mar 2030

Embargo at Persib

No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.

Boardroom11 Mar 2030

Wages swallow 119% of the Persib income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Boardroom11 Mar 2030

The borrowing at Persib reaches $29.0M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $29.0M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

The dugout11 Mar 2030

A promise honoured for Avi Refaelov

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Persib told Avi Refaelov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout11 Mar 2030

Hilman Syah gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Market Talks stall between Persib and Ikenna Motors
  • Market No place for Iran in the plan
182 Edition

The Persib Chronicle

21 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market21 Jan 2030

Saddil Ramdani has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Persib they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The terraces21 Jan 2030

Supporters turn on the $360.0K sale of Ramon Tanque

He is going to Dewa United, the club has $360.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market21 Jan 2030

Iran 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 Persib, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad21 Jan 2030

Uilliam Barros 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 Persib this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market21 Jan 2030

Ramon Tanque moves on

Dewa United pay $360.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Boardroom21 Jan 2030

Persib agree a free transfer for Chris Nduwarugira

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Transfer targets21 Jan 2030

Altach tell Persib: Sun Huizer is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad21 Jan 2030

A row about effort at Persib

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

Squad21 Jan 2030

Too much change too quickly at Persib

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.

In brief