The Dewa United Herald
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Vintage Noah Sadaoui — 8.25
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.25, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sonny Stevens stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sonny Stevens and Dewa United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Dewa United
Noah Sadaoui and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Dewa United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Johnathan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Dewa United rebuffed over Jorthy Mokio
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ajax have kept their man, and Dewa United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Persijap join the queue for Muhammad Natsir
Add another name to the list: Persijap have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Muhammad Natsir. The answer from Dewa United has not changed — yet.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Rafael Struick
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dewa United count the cost of losing Kafiatur Rizky
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market3 Aug 2026
Dewa United and Sonny Stevens 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
- Transfer targets A loan move for Lucas Gaona is in the works
- Match Noah Sadaoui rescues a point for Dewa United
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Bambang Wibowo on the draw