The Arema Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
15 seasons of Johan Alfarizi
297 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Arema know what they have.
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Julián Guevara stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Julián Guevara and Arema agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Walisson Maia 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Betinho was immovable
22 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Match1 Aug 2026
Joel sends Arema past PSBS Biak
It finished 1‑0, and it was Joel’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Arema.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Arema and Julián Guevara
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Arema, another week without a signature from Julián Guevara.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Joel stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.97 on the card, and the Arema support went home talking about one name.
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
- Squad Words at Arema training over how hard people work
- Player ratings Valdeci runs at them all day
- Market Fikri Arjidan is free to find somewhere else