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Uneasy
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Bhayangkara Presisi have done the hard part with Maluku Utara United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Allano 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Mauricio Vera 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan move for Marko Brey is in the works
Bhayangkara Presisi have made the call to Los Andes. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Nobody at Bhayangkara Presisi 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bhayangkara Presisi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
10 appearances away from home and 4 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Everything agreed with Feyenoord, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Allano 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 34 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Bhayangkara Presisi is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Mauricio Vera 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Bhayangkara Presisi know it.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Persis have kept their man, and Bhayangkara Presisi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market11 Jan 2027
The Allano talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Bhayangkara Presisi know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Feyenoord keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market14 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Ginanjar Wahyu to PSBS Biak has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Bhayangkara Presisi with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Match12 Sep 2026
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and PSBS Biak were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Match12 Sep 2026
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Bhayangkara Presisi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauricio Vera 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.82 on the card, and the Bhayangkara Presisi support went home talking about one name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Léo Silva 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 Bhayangkara Presisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Andi Nugroho could afford to be generous.
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Uneasy
Market17 Aug 2026
“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 Bhayangkara Presisi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Bhayangkara Presisi had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Feyenoord, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Allano 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 Bhayangkara Presisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Bhayangkara Presisi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mauricio Vera 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ADO Den Haag have kept their man, and Bhayangkara Presisi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Feyenoord have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Match15 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Persija leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Andi Nugroho was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Bhayangkara Presisi dressing room was either.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
A 0‑3 beating by Semen Padang was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A career in one shirt: Juni Antara
11 seasons and 201 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Bhayangkara Presisi know it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Bhayangkara Presisi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nehar Sadiki, and the manager let it.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Bhayangkara Presisi dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Bhayangkara Presisi, another week without a signature from Milan Ristovski.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Andi Nugroho after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.