The Bali United Post
Squad15 Dec 2031
Mike Hauptmeijer breaks a bone — 92 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad15 Dec 2031
Arief Catur damages knee ligaments — 87 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 87 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.
Market15 Dec 2031
Kakang Rudianto asks to leave Bali 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.
Squad15 Dec 2031
Jort van der Sande 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 Bali United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Dec 2031
Jordy Bruijn 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.
Boardroom15 Dec 2031
95% of the income goes out in wages at Bali 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.
In brief
- Market Riswan Lauhin brings the grey hairs Bali United lacked
- Market Jort van der Sande linked with a move away
- Market Boris Kopitović placed on the list