Ofek Peretz

Right Midfielder - Saba
31 Oct 2026
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Marked for Ofek Peretz

10 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Oct 2026

Saba are in real trouble now

Position 14, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match3 Oct 2026

The wait goes on for Saba

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Vintage Hamed Pakdel — 8.00

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.00, and nobody on the pitch better.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Alireza Naghizadeh goes up and wins it — 7.19

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.19 for the rest of it.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Hamed Pakdel 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 Saba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ofek Peretz is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Match3 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for Saba against Foolad

2‑3 to Foolad, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match3 Oct 2026

Saba leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

No hiding place for Alireza Haghighi

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

In brief

  • Squad Too much change too quickly at Saba
  • The dugout Ali Khodadad faces the questions
  • Squad Words at Saba training over how hard people work
Back issues
6 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Saba close the window on a squad of their own making

33 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Saba count the cost of losing Alireza Haghighi

16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Hamed Pakdel 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 Saba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces7 Sep 2026

Saba spend $200.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $200.0K for Ali Dejagah, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Sepahan tell Saba: Ali Karimi is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market7 Sep 2026

Saba buy the years ahead of Ali Dejagah

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Saba

22 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Saba ask about Ali Karimi

A loan enquiry to Sepahan: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Ofek Peretz makes the team of the month

Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

4 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Alireza Naghizadeh pops up at the right end — 7.62

7.62, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Saba go back to the board over Falah Daram

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $230.0K — a club that wants Falah Daram enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Ali Dejagah will not be coming to Saba

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

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Saba make their move for Falah Daram

$220.0K on the table at Esteghlal Ahvaz. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Saba

Hamed Pakdel 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Alireza Naghizadeh sends Saba past Esteghlal Ahvaz

It finished 3‑2, and it was Alireza Naghizadeh’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Saba.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Mohammad Ghorbani

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

The terraces24 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Amir Shahim

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Nima Mirzazad

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

In brief

1 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ravid Olezki takes the match ball home

5 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Match1 Aug 2026

Ravid Olezki leads the rout of Naft Tehran

8‑0, and Ravid Olezki took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Saba tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ofek Peretz takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Ravid Olezki, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.46

A mark of 8.46 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Vahid Asgarpour arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Vahid Asgarpour has, at Saba, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Alireza Naghizadeh 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 Saba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Aug 2026

8 goals as Saba and Naft Tehran go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Saba and Naft Tehran, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Saba

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

The terraces3 Aug 2026

Saba supporters have found a favourite in Ofek Peretz

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ofek Peretz has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief