Chen Zhexuan

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
9 Dec 2029
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The Persik Sentinel

6 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Aug 2029

Leo keeps Persik in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Boardroom6 Aug 2029

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Persik

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

The dugout6 Aug 2029

Andri Pato: 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.” Persik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market6 Aug 2029

Chen Zhexuan 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 The request is on a desk at Persik, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings6 Aug 2029

Nobody could get near Xemxidin

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Words at Persik training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrián Luna 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 targets6 Aug 2029

Door shut on Lewys Benjamin

Persik asked and Austria Lustenau said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad6 Aug 2029

25 clean sheets for Leo

A goalkeeper's career is counted in the games nobody scored in, and Leo now has 25 of them across 221 appearances. Nothing about that number was luck.

Squad6 Aug 2029

Words exchanged at Persik

Zalnando 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.

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101 Edition

The Persik Sentinel

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Reno Piscopo

44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Persik lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Leo keeps Persik in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market3 Jul 2028

Yusaku Yamadera 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 Persik can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout3 Jul 2028

Chen Zhexuan: 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.” Persik have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market3 Jul 2028

Ardi Ardiana is on his way

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

Market3 Jul 2028

Borneo join the queue for Rodrigo

Add another name to the list: Borneo have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rodrigo. The answer from Persik has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

No thanks: Marcelo Cunha rejects the move

Persik had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Goianésia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Player ratings3 Jul 2028

Nothing got past Muhamad Firly

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Transfer targets3 Jul 2028

Persik rebuffed over Imanol García

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Persebaya have kept their man, and Persik go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Persik training over how hard people work
  • Squad Tempers go at Persik
  • Transfer targets A loan move for Imanol García is in the works
87 Edition

The Persik Sentinel

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad27 Mar 2028

Sihran Amarullah damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

Wei Jiaao keeps the receipts

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

Squad27 Mar 2028

A row about effort at Persik

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

Squad27 Mar 2028

Words exchanged at Persik

Keisuke Sakaiya 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.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

When it matters, Reno Piscopo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout27 Mar 2028

Yusaku Yamadera 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.

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