The Persik Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ezra Walian runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Persik sell a favourite for $340.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Syahrian Abimanyu was one of the reasons people came, and $340.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market10 Aug 2026
Persik turn down Wellington Phoenix for Rodrigo
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fransiskus Alesandro asks to leave Persik
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jon Toral 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 Persik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Business is business: Syahrian Abimanyu goes
Bali United paid $340.0K and Persik took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Marinus Pratama joins the Persik first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marinus Pratama is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match8 Aug 2026
No goals between Persik and Arema
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Arema will be the happier side with the point.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ezra Walian 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 Persik, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Squad A wage question at Persik
- Squad The plan did not have a place for Muhamad Firly