The Semen Padang Herald
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Semen Padang run out of patience with Syahrian Hidayat
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Syahrian Hidayat clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Match4 Sep 2027
Semen Padang leave it late against PSM
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and PSM spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Crisis meeting at Semen Padang
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Ricky Wibowo takes charge at Semen Padang
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Age has not caught Irsyad Maulana yet — 8.09
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Ângelo Meneses 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 Semen Padang this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
142% of the income goes out in wages at Semen Padang
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.
Match4 Sep 2027
Irsyad Maulana the difference as Semen Padang beat PSM
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Irsyad Maulana. 1‑0 against PSM, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Kazaki Nakagawa 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Kianz Froese in the eights
- Market Semen Padang sign Samuel Kyereh, one for the future
- Squad A fresh start for Ravy Tsouka under the new man