Daisuke Sakai

Central Midfielder - PSM
14 Oct 2026
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Marked for Daisuke Sakai

9 Edition

The PSM Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Sep 2026

Sávio breaks a bone — 100 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 100 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match26 Sep 2026

8 matches without a win for PSM

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around PSM are no longer polite ones.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Hilman Syah 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 PSM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Words at PSM training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Čumić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Gledson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Luka Čumić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The PSM Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match19 Aug 2026

PSM out of the cup

Persik ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 14 of the 29 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Market24 Aug 2026

Rasyid Bakri asks to leave PSM

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at PSM

Hilman Syah 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Gledson falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad24 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Dušan Lagator

“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.

Match22 Aug 2026

PSM come up short against Persis

Persis left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad24 Aug 2026

The manager has not finished forgetting Daisuke Sakai's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

One moment undoes Daisuke Sakai

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

In brief

2 Edition

The PSM Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Aug 2026

Hilman Syah 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 PSM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Gledson shuts the door

Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Daisuke Sakai gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match8 Aug 2026

Alex Tanque sends PSM past Borneo

It finished 1‑0, and it was Alex Tanque’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to PSM.

Market10 Aug 2026

PSM and Hilman Syah are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

The afternoon belonged to Alex Tanque

A mark of 7.71, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Reza Arya Pratama dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market10 Aug 2026

Akbar Tanjung told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Akbar Tanjung has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at PSM.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nothing got past Sávio

15 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

In brief

1 Edition

The PSM Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match1 Aug 2026

Bhayangkara Presisi punish PSM for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Daisuke Sakai will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at PSM escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Market3 Aug 2026

Mufli Hidayat hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what PSM can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Sávio signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sávio and PSM agree another 3 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Gledson 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 PSM this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Sheriddin Boboev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sheriddin Boboev, and the manager let it.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Luka Čumić

Marked 8.32 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Aloísio Soares falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

The chances came and went for Alex Tanque

8 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Market3 Aug 2026

PSM and Alex Tanque are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief