The Persik Sentinel
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Persik
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Reno Piscopo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Yandi Sofyan 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Mochammad Supriadi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Imanol García talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Persik know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Syahrian Abimanyu: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Persik will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Andhika Ramadhani has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Andhika Ramadhani has written the date down.
In brief
- Squad The training reports on Reno Piscopo are not good
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Jon Toral