The Persita Courier
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 138% of everything Persita earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Persita
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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Dion Markx named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Dion Markx is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Muhammad Toha 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Andrean Rindorindo 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
Ahmad Nur Hardianto gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ahmad Nur Hardianto is on it.
In brief
- Market Rayco linked with a move away
- Squad Ahmad Alchoir has had enough of the bench
- The dugout The manager makes Mario Jardel a promise
- The dugout The manager comes out for Rayco