Alexandre Ramalingom

Striker - Persita
16 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Alexandre Ramalingom

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The Persita Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Persita say no — this time

The offer from Dewa United for Matheus Alves was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Tyronne yet — 8.20

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.20 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Persita

Javlon Guseynov 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.

Match

Tyronne sends Persita past Persik

It finished 2‑1, and it was Tyronne’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Persita.

Market

Bagas Kurniawan steps up from the Persita academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bagas Kurniawan 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.

Market

Egy Lilipaly steps up from the Persita academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Egy Lilipaly 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.

Market

One of our own: Bagus Pratama joins the Persita first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bagus Pratama is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Firman Santoso out for 21 days

The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Firman Santoso, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Andri Sulaeman kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

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1 Edition

The Persita Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alexandre Ramalingom stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alexandre Ramalingom and Persita agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Rayco 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 Persita this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Alexandre Ramalingom 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.

Market

Persita and Éber Bessa 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.

Squad

Igor Rodrigues gifts one

A goalkeeper’s error has no defender behind it to tidy it away. He knew before the ball crossed the line, the crowd knew a second later, and there is nothing anybody can say tonight.

The dugout

Igor Rodrigues is still paying for one afternoon at Persita

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Match

Persita and PSBS Biak take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Andri Sulaeman on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Looking ahead

Kurniawan Ajie faces his old club

Persik next, and one man in the Persita dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief