The PSM Post
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Alex Tanque takes the afternoon — 8.70
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Alex Tanque provided it, and the 8.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market31 Aug 2026
Resky Fandi 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
PSM get the job done against Persijap
A 3‑2 win over Persijap, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at PSM training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gledson 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at PSM
Aloísio Soares 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Reza Arya Pratama
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Sávio in the eights
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Luka Čumić runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 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.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Yuran Lopes in it
- The terraces The press have found their man in Alex Tanque
- The terraces The stand has a song for Alex Tanque