The Persik Sentinel
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Persik
0‑1 against Persebaya, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Leo keeps Persik in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Vintage Telmo Castanheira — 8.00
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.00, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market24 Aug 2026
Daffa Salman asks to leave Persik
“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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Novri Setiawan goes
Bali United paid $58.0K and Persik took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match22 Aug 2026
Persik see off PSIM
Three points for Persik, 1‑0 the final word against PSIM in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Persik training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reno Piscopo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Yoga Adiatama 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 Persik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Justin Hubner is in the works
Persik have made the call to Fortuna Sittard. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Market Husna Al Malik is free to find somewhere else
- The dugout No place in the plan for Adrián Luna