The Persebaya Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Both of them Mihailo Perović's — 8.54
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.54, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
Persebaya go back to the board over Muhammad Natsir
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.6K — a club that wants Muhammad Natsir enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Persebaya
Jefferson 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Persebaya bid $31.0K for Asyraq Gufron
The offer went to Semen Padang this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Persebaya walk away from Muhammad Natsir
$5.0K was the most the club would pay and Dewa United were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Rachmat Irianto stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rachmat Irianto and Persebaya agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Léo Lelis wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Persebaya can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Persebaya rebuffed over Francisco Souza Silva
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Benfica have kept their man, and Persebaya go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Léo Lelis wants one last season at home
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Persebaya know now that the thought has arrived.
In brief
- Market Persebaya promote Evan Putra from within
- Market Bimo Riyadi steps up from the Persebaya academy
- Market Persebaya promote Septian Kurniawan from within