The PSM Post
Market7 Feb 2028
So close: Daisuke Sakai’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Persik moved on, Daisuke Sakai reports back to PSM, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Miswar Saputra says PSM 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Deadline passes with 10 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at PSM until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A falling-out at PSM
Sem Eekhout and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at PSM
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Rafael Struick 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.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
PSM rebuffed over Leonel Szalich
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ferro Carril Oeste have kept their man, and PSM go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market7 Feb 2028
One of our own: Rizky Abimanyu joins the PSM first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rizky Abimanyu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market7 Feb 2028
Hendro Hardiyanto steps up from the PSM academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hendro Hardiyanto 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.
In brief
- Market PSM promote Andi Wibowo from within
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Gledson
- Match PSM find a way past Madura United