The Persebaya Gazette
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Rachmat Irianto pops up at the right end — 7.97
7.97, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jefferson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jefferson and Persebaya agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Francisco Rivera wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Persebaya can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Persebaya
Remco Balk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Persebaya training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jefferson 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Door shut on Dyogo Alves
Persebaya asked and Flamengo said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match1 Aug 2026
Miguel Pereira sends Persebaya past Persija
It finished 2‑1, and it was Miguel Pereira’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Persebaya.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
One of those days for Miguel Pereira
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Market3 Aug 2026
Persebaya and Remco Balk are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- The dugout A satisfied Ricky Hidayat
- Player ratings Mihailo Perović was unplayable
- Market No place for Randy May in the plan