Bimo Putra

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
5 Oct 2031
Sunday
Process

Marked for Bimo Putra

199 Edition

The PSBS Biak Herald

20 May 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Bimo Putra puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at PSBS Biak, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The wait goes on for PSBS Biak

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Words exchanged at PSBS Biak

Nadeo Argawinata and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

A bad afternoon for PSBS Biak against Persis

1‑3 to Persis, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Eduardo Barbosa was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout

Nadeo Argawinata gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Firman Hardiyanto — 6.83

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 11 actions, 6.83, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Squad

Egy Lilipaly signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Egy Lilipaly commits to PSBS Biak for another 3 years.

The dugout

Interim Coach answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

Back issues
175 Edition

The PSBS Biak Herald

3 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Heri Susanto damages knee ligaments — 100 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 100 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.

Match

Every point is an argument now for PSBS Biak

Position 17 and 16 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Boardroom

PSBS Biak spell it out for Rizky Sucipto

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Rizky Sucipto has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market

Aditya Darmawan hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what PSBS Biak can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

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Squad

Mohcine Hassan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mohcine Hassan and PSBS Biak agree another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at PSBS Biak

Dzaky Asraf 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.

The dugout

Bimo Putra gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Words at PSBS Biak training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tobias Solossa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief