The PSIM Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
Franco Ramos Mingo damages knee ligaments — 96 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 96 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
PSIM say no — this time
The offer from Semen Padang for Andi Irfan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Thabang Molefe gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Thabang Molefe has just signed for PSIM, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Nermin Haljeta for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. PSIM will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Adrián Dalmau 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
PSIM see off PSBS Biak
Three points for PSIM, 2‑0 the final word against PSBS Biak in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
One of those days for Ezequiel Vidal
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Anton Fase
Marked 8.26 — 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no ink between PSIM and Jop van der Avert
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at PSIM, another week without a signature from Jop van der Avert.
In brief
- Market PSIM sign Irfan Pratama, one for the future
- Market PSIM buy the years ahead of Marinus Firmansyah
- Player ratings Nermin Haljeta ran the game