Dalberto

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Arema
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Dalberto

5 Edition

The Arema Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match26 Aug 2026

The small margins put Arema out

Out, 2‑4 to Persik, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match26 Aug 2026

Persik punish Arema for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Valdeci will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Arema escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Valdeci scores twice — 9.06

Two goals and a mark of 9.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market31 Aug 2026

Dalberto puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Arema, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

The paperwork begins on Taisei Marukawa

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

Market31 Aug 2026

Arema turn down Persib for Luiz Gustavo

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

Boardroom31 Aug 2026

Arema go back to the board over Taisei Marukawa

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $681.8K — a club that wants Taisei Marukawa enough to be asked twice.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Arema

Lucas Frigeri 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

Dedik Setiawan 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.

In brief

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3 Edition

The Arema Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Arema break the bank for Irkham Mila

$430.0K. No player has ever cost Arema more, and expectation arrives with him.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Dalberto was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 31. 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Yoël van den Ban will not be coming to Arema

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at AZ is saying, and nobody at Arema is enjoying the guessing.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Arema

Walisson Maia 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.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Arema spend $430.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $430.0K for Irkham Mila, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Match15 Aug 2026

Arema find a way past Persita

Persita made Arema work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Valdeci in the eights

A performance of 8.27 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Arema training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hansamu Yama 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

PSIM watching Adi Satryo

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Arema have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

1 Edition

The Arema Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Aug 2026

16 seasons of Johan Alfarizi

326 appearances across 16 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Arema know 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.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Valdeci runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Arema

Walisson Maia 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Kei Hirose

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Hansamu Yama 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Dalberto wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

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.

In brief