Maouri Simon

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Bali United
16 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Maouri Simon

63 Edition

The Bali United Post

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Words exchanged at Bali United

Diego Campos 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

Words at Bali United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mirza Mustafić 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alexvan Djin

“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.

The dugout

Thijmen Goppel has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Bali United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

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.

The dugout

Syahrian Abimanyu knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bali United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

Bali United put Boris Kopitović up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Boris Kopitović may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Squad

Jens Raven wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Bali United will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

Looking ahead

Bali United host Persita

Next up at home: Persita, who go into it in position 10. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.

In brief

Back issues
60 Edition

The Bali United Post

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Rizky Dwi Febrianto out for 32 days

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

Market

Maouri Simon asks to leave Bali 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 Bali United

Jort van der Sande 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.

Match

Madura United take the points off Bali United

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Bali United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mirza Mustafić 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Mirza Mustafić

“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.

The dugout

Fachri Asnawi: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout

Bali United keep their word to Brandon Wilson

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout

Somebody else is better right now than Alexvan Djin

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

58 Edition

The Bali United Post

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Rizky Dwi Febrianto out for 46 days

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

Boardroom

Bali United write off $64.5K on Novri Setiawan

He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $64.5K of what Bali United paid for Novri Setiawan is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.

Squad

Ricky Fajrin: 12 seasons and counting

284 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Bali United know exactly what they have.

Market

Yabes Roni 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 Bali United, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Jens Raven says Bali United 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.

Boardroom

Bali United close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 10 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad

Mirza Mustafić wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Bali United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad

A falling-out at Bali United

Mirza Mustafić 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 91% of everything Bali United 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.

In brief