Dion Markx

Central Defender - Persita
25 Nov 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Dion Markx

14 Edition

The Persita Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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
Back issues
6 Edition

The Persita Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Igor Rodrigues 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 The request is on a desk at Persita, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Hokky Caraka has said yes to PSBS Biak

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Persita have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Persita say no — this time

The offer from Persebaya for Ramón Bueno was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 13 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at Persita until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Transfer targets

Tiago Cóser will not be coming to Persita

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Coritiba is saying, and nobody at Persita is enjoying the guessing.

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.

Squad

A row about effort at Persita

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

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Dion Markx

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Dion Markx has come out of that comparison in the side, and Persita have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout

No hiding place for Kurniawan Ajie

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

In brief