Samuel Kyereh

Goalkeeper - Semen Padang U20
21 Nov 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Samuel Kyereh

58 Edition

The Semen Padang Herald

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

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.

Match

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.

Boardroom

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.

Boardroom

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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

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57 Edition

The WAFA Post

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Yaw Mensah out for 28 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason WAFA will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Real improvement from Abdul Adjei at WAFA

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Abdul Adjei is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at WAFA

Yaw Mensah 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.

Squad

Emmanuel Annan has improved at 28, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market

Inter Allies are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. WAFA will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

The Abdul Adjei talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. WAFA know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief