Joel

Striker - Arema
12 Sep 2026
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Marked for Joel

6 Edition

The Arema Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Achmad Maulana 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 The request is on a desk at Arema, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 15 in, 0 out at Arema

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Abu Kamara

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

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Arema baulk at the price for Jack Brown

Persita wanted more than $22.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Arema

Rafael Struick and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad7 Sep 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Gabriel Silva is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Gabriel Silva has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Mauro Zijlstra named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Mauro Zijlstra is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Gianluca Pandeynuwu

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gianluca Pandeynuwu, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Arema Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Dalberto beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 50. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Lucas Frigeri keeps Arema in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market17 Aug 2026

Arema say no — this time

The offer from Persebaya for Dendi Santoso was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

An offer of $1.3M for Diego Chávez

Arema have gone to Deportivo Pasto with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Arema go back to the board over Giovani Numberi

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $33.4K — a club that wants Giovani Numberi enough to be asked twice.

Market17 Aug 2026

Andrian Casvari’s move to Persijap falls through

The deal that would have taken Andrian Casvari to Persijap has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Arema with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Arema

Lucas Frigeri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Arema bid $31.0K for Giovani Numberi

The offer went to Madura United this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Arema baulk at the price for Ricky Fajrin

Bali United wanted more than $26.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

In brief

1 Edition

The Arema Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Lucas Frigeri in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Arema this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Yoël van den Ban

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

Market3 Aug 2026

Persijap watching Andrian Casvari

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

Match1 Aug 2026

Dalberto the difference as Arema beat Madura United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dalberto. 1‑0 against Madura United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Gabriel Silva 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.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Dalberto in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

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.

In brief