The Persita Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Bohdan Budko
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Persita have done the hard part with AZ, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Rayco runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Persita
Igor Rodrigues 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
One of our own: Marinus Putra joins the Persita first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marinus Putra is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Wahyu Supriadi steps up from the Persita academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Wahyu Supriadi has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Bimo Darmawan joins the Persita first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bimo Darmawan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Wahyu Kurniawan joins the Persita first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Wahyu Kurniawan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Dejan Račić takes the honours
Marked 7.80 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Persita had the best player on the pitch.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A loan move for Enoch Mastoras is in the works
Persita have made the call to AZ. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Match Persita share the spoils with Persib
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Andi Arhan on the draw
- Squad Charisma Fathoni falls out with a teammate over standards