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The Persijap Gazette

11 Apr 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom11 Apr 2039

The numbers do not look good at Persijap

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Market11 Apr 2039

Dauren Akhmetov 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 The request is on a desk at Persijap, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match9 Apr 2039

The wait goes on for Persijap

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.

Squad11 Apr 2039

Tor Erik Larsen wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Persijap know it.

Match9 Apr 2039

6 unbeaten for Persijap

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Persijap did not have in the autumn.

Squad11 Apr 2039

Majid Ebrahimi 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.

Squad11 Apr 2039

Tempers go at Persijap

Saood Al-Noufeli 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.

Squad11 Apr 2039

Muhammad Ardiansyah dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Player ratings11 Apr 2039

Nobody could get near Aibol Orazov

Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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The Persijap Gazette

14 Mar 2039
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Mar 2039

Maciej Saletra damages knee ligaments — 23 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.

Squad14 Mar 2039

Tor Erik Larsen breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match9 Mar 2039

Pejman Pouraliganji sends Persijap through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Pejman Pouraliganji obliged against Persik. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Persijap.

Market14 Mar 2039

Tor Erik Larsen 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 Persijap can pretend not to have heard.

Match9 Mar 2039

Persijap win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 110th minute. Persik will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Boardroom14 Mar 2039

Persijap counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Persijap now.

Player ratings14 Mar 2039

Pejman Pouraliganji, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.85

A mark of 7.85 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad14 Mar 2039

Alireza Ghoddos says Persijap went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad14 Mar 2039

Tempers go at Persijap

Najeeb Yakubu 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.

In brief