The PSIM Sentinel
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
PSIM spell it out for Fachri Sucipto
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Fachri Sucipto has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Adrián Dalmau, 33, rolls back the years — 7.87
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.87 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market2 Aug 2027
Riyatno Abiyoso 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.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Odilo Pinutusta says PSIM 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
7 unbeaten for PSIM
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation PSIM did not have in the autumn.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Nur Diansyah 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Franco Ramos Mingo 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
PSIM get the job done against Dewa United
A 1‑0 win over Dewa United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Ezequiel Vidal
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Loan watch Andy Setyo is tired of being somebody else's player
- The dugout No hiding place for Raka Cahyana
- Squad Rio Hardiawan is no longer first choice