The Arema Sentinel
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Dalberto was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Arema see off PSBS Biak
Three points for Arema, 3‑1 the final word against PSBS Biak in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A masterclass from Valdeci
Marked 8.89 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match1 Aug 2026
Arema settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. PSBS Biak spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Gustavo França was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Pablo Oliveira at his very best
- Market Dalberto wants European nights
- Market Arema and Walisson Maia are talking past each other