The Borneo Post
Squad23 Aug 2027
Kaio Nunes breaks a bone — 55 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 55 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Aug 2027
Achmad Figo 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 Borneo can pretend not to have heard.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Borneo
Marcos Astina 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.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
San Telmo tell Borneo: Juan Pablo Rial is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match21 Aug 2027
Persija take the points off Borneo
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Borneo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rifad Marasabessy 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Borneo count the cost of losing Bimo Wibowo
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Hanif Nugroho faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Hanif Nugroho after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Borneo ask about Lisandro Santomé
A loan enquiry to Quilmes: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- The dugout Marcos Astina has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Achmad Figo
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Marcos Astina