The Persebaya Gazette
Squad28 Sep 2026
A day Mihailo Perović will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Home is on Francisco Rivera's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Persebaya are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Persebaya
Jefferson 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Mihailo Perović at his very best
Marked 9.65. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Persebaya.
Match26 Sep 2026
Mihailo Perović sends Persebaya past PSIM
It finished 3‑1, and it was Mihailo Perović’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Persebaya.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Miloš Raičković 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Andi Wibowo has his say
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Andi Wibowo on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ernando Ari knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ernando Ari trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Adre Arido
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Ryan Ardiansyah
- Looking ahead A reunion for Rachmat Irianto
- Market The Mihailo Perović question follows Persebaya around