The Persebaya Gazette
Squad7 Feb 2028
The knee: Alexvan Djin out for 51 days
51 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Persebaya lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Window shuts: 11 in, 4 out at Persebaya
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Too dear: Persebaya walk away from Andrew Jung
$1.6M was the most the club would pay and Persib 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
The run at home goes on for Persebaya
11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Jefferson 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 Persebaya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Persebaya
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
Deri Corfe signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Deri Corfe and Persebaya agree another 4 years.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Persebaya
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Eduardo Barbosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match5 Feb 2028
Mihailo Perović sends Persebaya past Bhayangkara Presisi
It finished 2‑0, and it was Mihailo Perović’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Persebaya.
In brief
- Market Andi Pato steps up from the Persebaya academy
- Market Persebaya promote Septian Arhan from within
- Market Kurniawan Abimanyu steps up from the Persebaya academy