The Arema Sentinel
Boardroom1 Oct 2029
Pressure builds in the Arema boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Tempers go at Arema
Luiz Gustavo 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 dugout1 Oct 2029
No hiding place for Joel
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joel, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Oct 2029
A row about effort at Arema
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adam Przybek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 Oct 2029
A step back for Alex Talpa at Arema
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
The manager's exit leaves Itay Baruch exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Itay Baruch is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
Market1 Oct 2029
The Pablo Oliveira question follows Arema around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Pablo Oliveira’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad1 Oct 2029
Itay Baruch still has not settled
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Arema would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
The dugout1 Oct 2029
Adam Przybek knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adam Przybek trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market Arema put Armando Oropa up for sale
- Boardroom Arema were not finished after all
- Boardroom Arema keep producing them