Odilo Pinutusta

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Process

Marked for Odilo Pinutusta

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The PSIM Sentinel

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

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 ratings

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.

Market

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 dugout

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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

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The PSIM Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the PSIM board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

PSIM say no — this time

The offer from Persis for Ahmad Agung was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at PSIM

Franco Ramos Mingo 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.

Boardroom

Dika Kuswardani will join PSIM for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Dika Kuswardani has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means PSIM have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Habibi Jusuf

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

Transfer targets

PSIM ask about George Brown

A loan enquiry to Bhayangkara Presisi: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Boardroom

Wages eat 89% of everything PSIM 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.

Squad

PSIM are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

Arkhan Fikri is a square peg at PSIM

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

In brief