Dion Markx

Central Defender - Persita
6 Jan 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Dion Markx

18 Edition

The Persita Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Marinus Putra out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Persita lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Yardan Yafi says Persita went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

A falling-out at Persita

Igor Rodrigues and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom

Wages eat 148% 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.

Squad

Tyronne stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tyronne and Persita agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Aleksa Andrejić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksa Andrejić, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Persita Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Rayco beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 31. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Dewa United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Persita did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Andrean Rindorindo 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 The request is on a desk at Persita, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 14 in, 2 out at Persita

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Javlon Guseynov 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 Persita this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

At last: Persita win one

5 matches without a win, and then this, against Maluku Utara United. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.

Match

Persita find a way past Maluku Utara United

Maluku Utara United made Persita work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Pablo Ganet

Marked 8.38 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Words at Persita training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryuji Utomo 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.

In brief