Kadek Arel

Central Defender - PSBS Biak
17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Kadek Arel

100 Edition

The PSBS Biak Herald

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Samuel Gwijangge 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 The request is on a desk at PSBS Biak, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Samuel Gwijangge keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” PSBS Biak may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Luquinhas 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.

Loan watch

Witan Lilipaly wants to come home

“I did not go to Persijap to sit and watch. I want to come back to PSBS Biak and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

Squad

Kadek Arel 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 PSBS Biak this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Ilham Udin Armayn

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

In brief

Back issues
93 Edition

The PSBS Biak Herald

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at PSBS Biak has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Player ratings

Ibrahima Dembélé scores twice — 8.38

Two goals and a mark of 8.38 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Dimas Galih is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at PSBS Biak is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Pablo Andrade signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Pablo Andrade and PSBS Biak agree another 2 years.

Squad

Words at PSBS Biak training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yahav Afriat 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.

Match

Ibrahima Dembélé the difference as PSBS Biak beat Borneo

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ibrahima Dembélé. 2‑1 against Borneo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Boardroom

Wages eat 143% of everything PSBS Biak 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

Kevin López 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

Tempers go at PSBS Biak

Kadek Arel 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.

In brief

68 Edition

The PSBS Biak Herald

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Hadi Ardiansyah keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” PSBS Biak may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at PSBS Biak

Abdellah Haimoud 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.

Squad

Words at PSBS Biak training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yahav Afriat 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.

Squad

7 new faces, and PSBS Biak are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

The Mohcine Hassan question follows PSBS Biak around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mohcine Hassan’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market

Ilhamsyah joins PSBS Biak on a free

No fee and no drama: Ilhamsyah has signed at PSBS Biak, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief

55 Edition

The Bali United Post

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Sharp Uzoigwe hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bali United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Jort van der Sande 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 Bali United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Bali United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Boris Kopitović 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.

Match

Boris Kopitović sends Bali United past PSM

It finished 2‑1, and it was Boris Kopitović’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Bali United.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Ahmed Diomandé at his very best

Marked 8.43. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Bali United.

Player ratings

One of those days for Boris Kopitović

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Telmo Castanheira 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

6 new faces, and Bali United are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

The Diego Campos question follows Bali United around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Diego Campos’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief