Dede Sapari

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17 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dede Sapari

98 Edition

The Maluku Utara United Chronicle

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Rachmat Wardana

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maluku Utara United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Salam Jiddou breaks Bhayangkara Presisi hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Salam Jiddou scored in the 86th minute, Bhayangkara Presisi had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Maluku Utara United took the lot.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Maluku Utara United

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

Dede Sapari asks to leave Maluku Utara United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Maluku Utara United

Vico 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 ratings

Vico runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

França 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.

Boardroom

189% of the income goes out in wages at Maluku Utara United

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Igor Inocêncio

“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

Back issues
44 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Reva Adi Utama asks to leave PSIM

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Zé Valente yet — 8.01

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Dede Sapari: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” PSIM have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Cahya Supriadi is on his way

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

Squad

Franco Ramos Mingo 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 PSIM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Ezequiel Vidal runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief