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Marked for Mendonça

106 Edition

The Madura United Post

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market7 Aug 2028

Dzaky Asraf is on his way

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

Boardroom7 Aug 2028

Dzaky Asraf has agreed to leave Madura 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Madura United

Jordy Wehrmann 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.

Match5 Aug 2028

Nobody wins at Madura United

9 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings7 Aug 2028

One of those days for Ulug'bek Sunnatov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.45, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Words at Madura United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aji Kusuma 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Arsan Makarin signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Arsan Makarin and Madura United agree another 3 years.

Squad7 Aug 2028

No hiding place for Ruxi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ruxi, and the manager let it.

Match5 Aug 2028

Madura United and Persebaya take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

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94 Edition

The Madura United Post

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match13 May 2028

A 2-goal lead gone for Madura United

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Persis kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Madura United will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings15 May 2028

Elliot Collier, 33, rolls back the years — 8.11

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.11 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad15 May 2028

Mendonça: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Madura United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad15 May 2028

Abdou Sissoko 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 Madura United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad15 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Abdou Sissoko

“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.

Player ratings15 May 2028

Francis Obumneme in the eights

A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

58 Edition

The Madura United Post

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad6 Sep 2027

Elliot Collier breaks a bone — 58 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The terraces6 Sep 2027

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 8 of the 28 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Mendonça: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Madura United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Jordy Wehrmann in trouble away from the ground

Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.

Market6 Sep 2027

Gladson Baba asks to leave Madura United

“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.

Match4 Sep 2027

The wait goes on for Madura United

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Madura United

Abdou Sissoko 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.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

150% of the income goes out in wages at Madura United

Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.

Match4 Sep 2027

Madura United come up short against Bali United

Bali United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

35 Edition

The Madura United Post

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market29 Mar 2027

Fransiskus Alesandro has one foot out of the door

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

Squad29 Mar 2027

Ziv Morgan 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.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Tempers go at Madura United

Sani Rizki 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.

Match27 Mar 2027

A bad afternoon for Madura United against Arema

0‑2 to Arema, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Abdou Sissoko 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.

The terraces29 Mar 2027

The spotlight tightens on Júnior Brandão

Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.

Market29 Mar 2027

Júnior Brandão linked with a move away

The name of Júnior Brandão keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Madura United say nothing, which says plenty.

Player ratings29 Mar 2027

Sani Rizki runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings29 Mar 2027

Jasey Wehrmann could not find anything

5.69. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

13 Edition

The Madura United Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Oct 2026

A fracture rules Ilhamsyah out for 120 days

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

Squad26 Oct 2026

Mendonça keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Madura United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Madura United

Abdou Sissoko 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.

In brief