The Persik Sentinel
Squad22 Feb 2027
The knee: Hendro Beckham out for 36 days
36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Persik lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Reno Piscopo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market22 Feb 2027
Satrio Azhar has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Persik they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
No thanks: Kauã rejects the move
Persik had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Criciúma, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Imanol García 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 Persik this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Costly mistake from Leo
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Leo knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match20 Feb 2027
Persik come up short against PSM
PSM left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Wahyu Septian left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Mohamed Ali Diadié has had enough of the bench
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Persik will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Leo's mistake
- The dugout Telmo Castanheira does not fit this one
- The dugout Gavin Kwan Adsit has become a man the manager trusts