The Madura United Post
Market10 Aug 2026
Yuda Editya turns PSBS Biak down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Maluku Utara United come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Madura United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Francesco Bonardi due for a Madura United medical
Everything agreed with Lumezzane, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Madura United
Júnior Brandão 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Bhayangkara Presisi join the queue for Jasey Wehrmann
Add another name to the list: Bhayangkara Presisi have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jasey Wehrmann. The answer from Madura United has not changed — yet.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Bimo Pato joins the Madura United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bimo Pato 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
Júnior Brandão sends Madura United past Persebaya
It finished 1‑0, and it was Júnior Brandão’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Madura United.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Júnior Brandão was the difference for Madura United
Marked 7.80. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jasey Wehrmann 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
- Transfer targets A loan move for Klāvs Bethers is in the works
- The dugout Ricky Pato: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Danilo Santacruz knocks on the manager's door