Nir Levy

Right Midfielder - PSIM
21 May 2035
Monday
Process

Marked for Nir Levy

426 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

25 Sep 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cruel end for Bhayangkara Presisi as PSIM pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. PSIM scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Market

Bobur Nematov 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 PSIM can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Dimas Wicaksono has a hand in both — 7.78

One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.78, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.

Squad

Words at PSIM training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nermin Haljeta 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.

Match

PSIM get the job done against Bhayangkara Presisi

A 2‑1 win over Bhayangkara Presisi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Hamdan Obaid

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Player ratings

One of those days for Hamdan Obaid

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.54, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Boardroom

The PSIM debt reaches $25.3M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Andy Setyo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
398 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

13 Mar 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Yousef Al-Salem out for 50 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason PSIM will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Both of them Hamdan Obaid's — 8.85

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.85, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

The wait goes on for PSIM

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.

Market

Bagas Lilipaly 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 PSIM can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words at PSIM training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cleo Ssetuba 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Hamdan Obaid

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Sebastián Hurtado 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.

Boardroom

PSIM are $25.7M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Match

Hamdan Obaid rescues a point for PSIM

It needed Hamdan Obaid to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against PSM, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

375 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

3 Oct 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Franco Ramos Mingo breaks a bone — 64 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

PSIM put Ricky Nugroho on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom

Crisis meeting at PSIM

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad

Franco Ramos Mingo 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 PSIM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at PSIM training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezequiel Vidal 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.

Boardroom

$737.1K of the owner's money at PSIM

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

In brief

364 Edition

The PSIM Sentinel

18 Jul 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Lior Mashansky

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. PSIM lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

PSIM sink to position 16

23 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

The wait goes on for PSIM

8 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.

Market

Madura United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and PSIM did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Words at PSIM training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ezequiel Vidal 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Cleo Ssetuba

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cleo Ssetuba, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at PSIM

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Squad

Nir Levy 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 PSIM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

PSIM and Persija take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief