The Bali United Post
Squad11 Oct 2027
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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
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 dugout11 Oct 2027
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 dugout11 Oct 2027
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.
Market11 Oct 2027
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 dugout11 Oct 2027
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.
Market11 Oct 2027
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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
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 ahead11 Oct 2027
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
- Squad Cauã Godoy is not doing himself any favours
- The dugout Maouri Simon keeps his manager's vote