Marked for Ashkan Rashedi
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Supporters organise against the Zob Ahan board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Aref Gholami breaks a bone — 82 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market19 Jul 2027
The chase for Amir Beiranvand ended with $2.7M changing hands and Gostaresh Foulad out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Zob Ahan have done the hard part with Al Jazira, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Zob Ahan
Ehsan Pahlevan 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.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Amir Beiranvand from Gostaresh Foulad for $2.7M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al Jazira have kept their man, and Zob Ahan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Abolfazl Mohammadi has come up in conversations Zob Ahan were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Farshad Faraji 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.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Market5 Jul 2027
Saeid Yazdani 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.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
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Squad5 Jul 2027
At 23 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ashkan Rashedi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Siah Jamegan asked and Padideh said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Alireza Cheshmi
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Siah Jamegan will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Padideh have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
A loan move for Saeid Ebrahimi is in the works
Siah Jamegan have made the call to Zob Ahan. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Upbeat
Market14 Jun 2027
$11.2M from Persepolis for Shahriar Karimi. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Siah Jamegan sell a favourite for $11.2M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Shahriar Karimi was one of the reasons people came, and $11.2M does not replace that by itself.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Siah Jamegan have done the hard part with Gostaresh Foulad, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Saipa have kept their man, and Siah Jamegan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Amir Rezaeian was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Jun 2027
At 21 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Siah Jamegan have made the call to Padideh. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad14 Jun 2027
No place for Ali Khodadad in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Siah Jamegan are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Upbeat
Market7 Jun 2027
“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 Siah Jamegan, and it is not being withdrawn.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
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Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Everything agreed with Zob Ahan, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad7 Jun 2027
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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A move Ali Khodadad would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ali Khodadad is living that version at Siah Jamegan, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Siah Jamegan asked and Sepahan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pejman Ebrahimi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
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Uneasy
The terraces29 Mar 2027
The mood at Zob Ahan has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad29 Mar 2027
At 21 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Zob Ahan
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohammad Omri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad29 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zob Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ashkan Rashedi and Zob Ahan agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Mohammad Omri 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 Mohammad Omri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Aref Gholami out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zob Ahan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market22 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Ashkan Rashedi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ashkan Rashedi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zob Ahan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Zob Ahan
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohammad Omri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Zob Ahan
Shayan Mosleh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Mohammad Omri 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 Mohammad Omri trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Match22 Feb 2027
Zob Ahan finish in position 14
25 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Match20 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Zob Ahan's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zob Ahan has to find a result from somewhere.
Market22 Feb 2027
Ashkan Rashedi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zob Ahan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match20 Feb 2027
The goals have deserted Zob Ahan
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Zob Ahan can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Zob Ahan
Ehsan Pahlevan 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.
Match20 Feb 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Zob Ahan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hasan Shoushtari 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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Ali Ahmadi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Majid Gholizadeh after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Crisis
Market15 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Gostaresh Foulad waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Zob Ahan is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match13 Feb 2027
No end in sight to Zob Ahan's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zob Ahan has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Zob Ahan
Ehsan Pahlevan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Zob Ahan
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mohammad Omri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Seyed Mehdi Hosseini has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Zob Ahan have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match13 Feb 2027
Zob Ahan cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Zob Ahan asked and Pakhtakor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match13 Feb 2027
0‑1 to Esteghlal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market15 Feb 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Hasan Shoushtari has his answer from Zob Ahan; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Upbeat
Market18 Jan 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Zob Ahan have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Tractor wanted more than $2.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market18 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Persepolis have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Hasan Shoushtari. The answer from Zob Ahan has not changed — yet.
Market18 Jan 2027
Sepahan pay $550.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Sepehr Simanpour has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Zob Ahan have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Hasan Shoushtari was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match16 Jan 2027
Three points for Zob Ahan, 1‑0 the final word against Foolad in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words at Zob Ahan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shayan Mosleh 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.
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Uneasy
Market28 Dec 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zob Ahan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Zob Ahan
Ehsan Pahlevan 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ashkan Rashedi is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Parsa Jafari
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Zob Ahan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shayan Mosleh 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 87% of everything Zob Ahan earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
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Upbeat
Match19 Dec 2026
Hasan Shoushtari wins it after the whistle should have gone
95 minutes played. Hasan Shoushtari found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Rah Ahan went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Zob Ahan
Shayan Mosleh 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Rah Ahan made Zob Ahan work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Saeid Karimi 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Majid Gholizadeh could afford to be generous.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Ashkan Rashedi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Persepolis in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
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Uneasy
Match28 Nov 2026
The drought breaks for Zob Ahan
18 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Saipa were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The terraces30 Nov 2026
Supporters organise against the Zob Ahan board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Age has not caught Ehsan Pahlevan yet — 7.93
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.93 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market30 Nov 2026
Ashkan Rashedi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zob Ahan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Adir Córdoba 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. Adir Córdoba has, at Zob Ahan, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zob Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match28 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Ehsan Pahlevan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Zob Ahan.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mahmoud Ghaedrahmati commits to Zob Ahan for another 1 years.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Zob Ahan training over how hard people work
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Boardroom
Wages swallow 86% of the Zob Ahan income
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The dugout
Majid Gholizadeh: “That is the standard”
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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
15 matches without a win for Zob Ahan
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Zob Ahan are no longer polite ones.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
Anger at Zob Ahan spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑3 to Esteghlal, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market2 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zob Ahan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Zob Ahan
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arash Ghaderi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Zob Ahan
Shayan Mosleh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Parsa Jafari gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Zob Ahan dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
In brief
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The dugout
A promise honoured at Zob Ahan
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Boardroom
86% of the income goes out in wages at Zob Ahan
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Zob Ahan
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Zob Ahan are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Ashkan Rashedi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ashkan Rashedi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zob Ahan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Zob Ahan
Ehsan Pahlevan 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Zob Ahan
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Zob Ahan against Foolad
0‑1 to Foolad, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Shayan Mosleh 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Omid Latifi, and the manager let it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
107% of the income goes out in wages at Zob Ahan
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Uneasy
Match5 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Zob Ahan
1‑1 against Rah Ahan, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.42 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Zob Ahan
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Zob Ahan are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Parsa Jafari
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Al Fujairah come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zob Ahan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 17 in, 3 out at Zob Ahan
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 17 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ashkan Rashedi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zob Ahan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Esteghlal Khuzestan have kept their man, and Zob Ahan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match22 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Zob Ahan
A 0‑3 beating by Tractor was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Zob Ahan people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Al Shabab, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Omar Ismail rejects the move
Zob Ahan had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Al Shabab, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Zob Ahan's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zob Ahan has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
Zob Ahan cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Saeid Karimi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.