The Persita Courier
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jack Brown
32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Persita lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 2026
Andi Irfan 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 Persita can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Aleksa Andrejić, 34, rolls back the years — 8.20
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Rayco runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Igor Rodrigues
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Persita training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Javlon Guseynov 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jasey Wehrmann 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Persita and Bhayangkara Presisi 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Persita and Bae Sin-Yeong
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Persita, another week without a signature from Bae Sin-Yeong.
In brief
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Matheus Alves
- Player ratings A day to forget for Bae Sin-Yeong
- Market Dafiq Firdaus leaves for nothing