Chechu

Central Defender - Persik
1 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Chechu

12 Edition

The Persik Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Krisna Bayu Otto breaks a bone — 104 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 104 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

No end in sight to Persik's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Persik has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

The goals have deserted Persik

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Persik can tell you which week it ends in.

The dugout

No hiding place for Chechu

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

The dugout

Wahyu Septian: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Match

No goals between Persik and Persis

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Persis will be the happier side with the point.

Player ratings

Jon Toral leaves them behind him

Shots: 5. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

Market

The Imanol García question follows Persik around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Imanol García’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings

Ezra Walian was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 11. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Persik Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Persik turn down Bhayangkara Presisi for Ezra Walian

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Krisna Bayu Otto 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 Persik can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Persik close the window on a squad of their own making

12 in and 8 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Justin Hubner

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Persik have done the hard part with Fortuna Sittard, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Reno Piscopo 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.

Squad

10 new faces, and Persik are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Satrio Azhar 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.

Market

The shop window has Ezra Walian in it

Persik have let the market know Ezra Walian can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

The dugout

When it matters, Gavin Kwan Adsit plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief