Walisson Maia

Central Defender - Arema
2 Jan 2027
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Marked for Walisson Maia

7 Edition

The Arema Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Sep 2026

A fracture rules Lucas Frigeri out for 119 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Arema will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad14 Sep 2026

The knee: Pablo Oliveira out for 101 days

101 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Arema lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Gianluca Pandeynuwu stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match12 Sep 2026

The wait goes on for Arema

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Transfer targets14 Sep 2026

No deal for Ilhamsyah at that price

Arema offered $27.0K; Madura United said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Match12 Sep 2026

Dedik Setiawan’s goal not enough for Arema

Dedik Setiawan scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to PSIM, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Gustavo França 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.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Bambang Putra left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Dalberto runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
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The Arema Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad3 Aug 2026

Johan Alfarizi: 16 seasons and counting

325 appearances across 16 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Arema know exactly what they have.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Walisson Maia stays put

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Arema

Joel 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Gustavo França 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on João Resende

Arema asked and Farense said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match1 Aug 2026

Arema get the job done against Madura United

A 1‑0 win over Madura United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market3 Aug 2026

Arema and Walisson Maia 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Arema has picked up the phone to Joel

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Dalberto takes the honours

Marked 7.69 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Arema had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

  • Transfer targets A loan move for Newertton is in the works
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Market Razzaa Fachrezi is free to find somewhere else