Ben Zaid

Attacking Midfielder (C) - PSIM
11 Mar 2029
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128 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 Jan 2029

Ahmad Agung damages knee ligaments — 36 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Boardroom8 Jan 2029

PSIM spell it out for Wahyu Beckham

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Wahyu Beckham has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad8 Jan 2029

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Zé Valente

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. PSIM will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Transfer targets8 Jan 2029

The paperwork begins on Claudio Lopez

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. PSIM have done the hard part with Amazonas, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets8 Jan 2029

Toni Firmansyah turns down PSIM

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad8 Jan 2029

Words exchanged at PSIM

Jop van der Avert 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.

Squad8 Jan 2029

A move Isaac Lee would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Isaac Lee is living that version at PSIM, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout8 Jan 2029

Ahmad Agung frozen out at PSIM

This is not rotation. Ahmad Agung has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at PSIM is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets8 Jan 2029

PSIM rebuffed over Otávio

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mafra have kept their man, and PSIM go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

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124 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

11 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 Dec 2028

Ahmad Agung damages knee ligaments — 66 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 66 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market11 Dec 2028

Andy Setyo hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what PSIM can pretend not to have heard.

Squad11 Dec 2028

Words exchanged at PSIM

Franco Ramos Mingo 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.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

Ahmad Agung frozen out at PSIM

This is not rotation. Ahmad Agung has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at PSIM is pretending otherwise.

Squad11 Dec 2028

A row about effort at PSIM

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alexis Luna was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom11 Dec 2028

Wages swallow 93% of the PSIM income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

When it matters, Ezequiel Vidal plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

No hiding place for Ben Zaid

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ben Zaid, and the manager let it.

The dugout11 Dec 2028

Anton Fase 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 PSIM, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

118 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Oct 2028

Alex Jojo breaks a bone — 48 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom30 Oct 2028

Pressure builds in the PSIM boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad30 Oct 2028

Zé Valente wants to go home

“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 PSIM know it.

Squad30 Oct 2028

Jop van der Avert 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.

Squad30 Oct 2028

A row about effort at PSIM

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Franco Ramos Mingo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout30 Oct 2028

No hiding place for Anton Fase

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anton Fase, and the manager let it.

The dugout30 Oct 2028

Anton Fase gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Anton Fase is on it.

Market30 Oct 2028

Anton Fase linked with a move away

The name of Anton Fase keeps appearing in other people's back pages. PSIM say nothing, which says plenty.

Market30 Oct 2028

Rizqi Abhirama joins PSIM to strengthen the squad

Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and PSIM have gone and got theirs early.

In brief

98 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market12 Jun 2028

Terms done: Harlan Suardi is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and PSBS Biak waiting with a shirt. Nobody at PSIM is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The dugout12 Jun 2028

Ben Zaid 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.

Market12 Jun 2028

Andi Irfan asks to leave PSIM

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad12 Jun 2028

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.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

PSIM rebuffed over Juan Sebastián Arias

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Fortaleza CEIF have kept their man, and PSIM go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match10 Jun 2028

PSIM come up short against Borneo

Borneo left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Muhammad Iqbal 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.

The dugout12 Jun 2028

Wahyu Beckham faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Wahyu Beckham after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout12 Jun 2028

Anton Fase has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at PSIM 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.

In brief