The PSM Post
Squad7 Feb 2028
84 days out for Hilman Syah after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. PSM will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Neto 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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Window shuts: 11 in, 1 out at PSM
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A move Germano 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. Germano is living that version at PSM, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Tempers go at PSM
Damion Lowe 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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Germano is a PSM player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
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.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Door shut on Andika Wisnu
PSM asked and PSBS Biak said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market7 Feb 2028
Bambang Sulaeman steps up from the PSM academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bambang Sulaeman 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 Stefano Septian from within
- Market One of our own: Hendro Darmawan joins the PSM first team
- Match Luka Čumić sends PSM past Madura United