Zayed Abdulraheem

Defensive Midfielder - Siah Jamegan
15 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Zayed Abdulraheem

47 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Zeleznicar Pancevo come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Siah Jamegan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

The step up is real for Zayed Abdulraheem

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Mirkomil Abdurazzoqov 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 Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Siah Jamegan

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Akbar O'ktamov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

5 new faces, and Siah Jamegan are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market

Siah Jamegan put Amir Taremi up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Amir Taremi may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Market

The Alireza Ebrahimi question follows Siah Jamegan around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alireza Ebrahimi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Mirkomil Abdurazzoqov 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 Mirkomil Abdurazzoqov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

A door opens for Mohammad Amini

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Karim Vafaei damages knee ligaments — 27 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

103 days out for Ali Taremi after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Siah Jamegan will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Siah Jamegan say no — this time

The offer from Zob Ahan for Mehdi Khodadad 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.

Player ratings

Saeid Ebrahimi, 34, rolls back the years — 8.44

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.44 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Sardar Pouraliganji hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Siah Jamegan can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

Siah Jamegan close the window on a squad of their own making

5 in and 3 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.

Transfer targets

Henrique Reis due for a Siah Jamegan medical

Everything agreed with Sporting CP, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Zayed Abdulraheem 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. Zayed Abdulraheem has, at Siah Jamegan, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Market

Milad Ahmadipouri is a Siah Jamegan player

The fee is $95.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Esteghlal Ahvaz drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

In brief