The PSM Post
Match6 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for PSM
11 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.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Reza Arya Pratama keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” PSM may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
No thanks: Tim Haksteeg rejects the move
PSM had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Feyenoord, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Fábio 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 PSM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Rizky Eka was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A move Zé Rodrigues would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Zé Rodrigues is living that version at PSM, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at PSM training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Čumić 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Hapoel Beer Sheva tell PSM: Niv Yehoshua is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Aditya Sulaeman joins the PSM first team
- Market PSM promote Dimas Putra from within
- Market Septian Asnawi steps up from the PSM academy