Dimas Wicaksono

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Persebaya
5 Jul 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Dimas Wicaksono

149 Edition

The Persebaya Gazette

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Dimas Wicaksono 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 The request is on a desk at Persebaya, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Rachmat Irianto is on his way

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

Match

Persebaya cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Mihailo Perović is carrying Persebaya

17 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Léo Silva

Persebaya asked and Bhayangkara Presisi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Vavá Guerreiro sends Persebaya past Maluku Utara United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Vavá Guerreiro’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Persebaya.

Player ratings

One of those days for Miguel Pereira

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.54, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Words at Persebaya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Tilápia 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

Words exchanged at Persebaya

Feby Eka Putra 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.

In brief

Back issues
123 Edition

The Persebaya Gazette

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Vukašin Vraneš out for 110 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Persebaya will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Risto Mitrevski stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Risto Mitrevski and Persebaya agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words exchanged at Persebaya

Jefferson 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

A row about effort at Persebaya

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

The dugout

When it matters, Miguel Pereira plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

The Mihailo Perović talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Persebaya know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

Persebaya and Rachmat Irianto are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

The manager makes João Tilápia a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Persebaya. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

Isaiah Alakiu joins Persebaya on a free

No fee and no drama: Isaiah Alakiu has signed at Persebaya, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief