The Madura United Post
Squad30 Nov 2026
123 days out for Vava Mario Yagalo after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Madura United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market30 Nov 2026
Dimitar Mitkov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Madura United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market30 Nov 2026
Júnior Brandão wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Júnior Brandão wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Madura United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Madura United
Jordy Wehrmann and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
257% of the income goes out in wages at Madura United
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Madura United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ruxi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market30 Nov 2026
Madura United sign Lorimer Bouman, one for the future
Lorimer Bouman is 20, and Madura United have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Aji Kusuma
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aji Kusuma, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Emerson Souza knocks on the manager's door
- Market The Jordy Wehrmann story refuses to die
- Loan watch Make Aldo Maulidino's loan at Borneo nearly up