Farhan Jafari

Defensive Midfielder - Malavan
10 Oct 2026
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Marked for Farhan Jafari

10 Edition

The Malavan Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Younes Akbarpour

93 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Malavan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ghaem Eslamikhah breaks a bone — 70 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ghaem Eslamikhah 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 Malavan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

151% of the income goes out in wages at Malavan

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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The manager makes an example of Abouazar Safarzadeh

“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.

Market5 Oct 2026

Malavan and Mohammad Alinejad are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Malavan Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Younes Akbarpour

100 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Malavan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Ghaem Eslamikhah breaks a bone — 77 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 77 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Malavan

Ghaem Eslamikhah 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Mehdi Abdi

“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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

One of those days for Gholam Reza Sabetimani

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match26 Sep 2026

Malavan share the spoils with Sepahan

A 1‑1 draw with Sepahan leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

5 Edition

The Malavan Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Aug 2026

Ghaem Eslamikhah breaks a bone — 107 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 107 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Malavan

Ghaem Eslamikhah 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Malavan come up short against Persepolis

Persepolis left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad31 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Behnam Barzay

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

Malavan pick somebody else ahead of Jafar Salmani

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market31 Aug 2026

Mohammad Reza Khosravi is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Malavan has been clear about where Mohammad Reza Khosravi stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Mehdi Abdi could have had three

5 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

Market31 Aug 2026

The shop window has Behnam Barzay in it

Malavan have let the market know Behnam Barzay can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Farhan Jafari leaves them behind him

Shots: 4. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

4 Edition

The Malavan Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Ghaem Eslamikhah out for 115 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Malavan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market24 Aug 2026

Alireza Ramezani 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 Malavan can pretend not to have heard.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Ghaem Eslamikhah 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 Malavan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Abouazar Safarzadeh 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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Mehdi Abdi was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.07. 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Mohammad Reza Khosravi 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Mahan Sadeghi rescues a point for Malavan

It needed Mahan Sadeghi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Rah Ahan, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Market24 Aug 2026

Farhan Jafari told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Farhan Jafari has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Malavan.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Farhan Jafari could have had three

4 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief