The PSIM Sentinel
Squad7 Dec 2026
Franco Ramos Mingo breaks a bone — 70 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
The silence upstairs is getting loud at PSIM
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Home is on Zé Valente's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; PSIM are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at PSIM
Jop van der Avert and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at PSIM
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rio Hardiawan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Ezequiel Vidal has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at PSIM will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market7 Dec 2026
PSIM bring in an old head
Rian Miziar is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
$547.9K taken back off the PSIM table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market7 Dec 2026
The Nermin Haljeta story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nermin Haljeta signs something — a contract at PSIM or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- The dugout Ahmad Agung knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Ferian Rizki has been promised minutes