The Persita Courier
Squad14 Feb 2028
Achmad Maulana: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Persita have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Persita
Pablo Ganet 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.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Nobody could get near Rayco
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Feb 2028
Whatever happens, Persita do not lose
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.
Match12 Feb 2028
Persita find a way past Persijap
Persijap made Persita work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
A masterclass from Pablo Ganet
Marked 8.99 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Persita count the cost of losing Bimo Sulaeman
37 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
One of those days for Matheus Alves
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad14 Feb 2028
No hiding place for Muhammad Toha
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Muhammad Toha, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Igor Rodrigues linked with a move away
- Market Nobody at Persita has picked up the phone to Faris Al-Shammari
- Market The window shut and Achmad Maulana is still in the building