Ehsan Beiranvand

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Marked for Ehsan Beiranvand

146 Edition

The Metallurg Herald

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Metallurg

24 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Metallurg

Branimir Jočić 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.

Player ratings

Shahriyor Jabborov runs at them all day

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.

Squad

Jo'rabek Mannonov 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 ratings

Behruzbek Asqarov in the eights

A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

One of those days for Asadbek Samariddinov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Yahav Afriat

Marked 8.20 — 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.

Match

Behruzbek Asqarov rescues a point for Metallurg

It needed Behruzbek Asqarov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Neftchi, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

Ehsan Beiranvand signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ehsan Beiranvand commits to Metallurg for another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
134 Edition

The Metallurg Herald

19 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Tempers go at Metallurg

Branimir Jočić 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.

Boardroom

The numbers do not look good at Metallurg

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Abror Karimov

“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.

In brief

129 Edition

The Metallurg Herald

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Branimir Jočić 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 Metallurg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

A long bet from Metallurg on Ehsan Beiranvand

He is 19, and nobody at Metallurg signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad

Yahav Afriat 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.

Squad

Sardor Qulmatov 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 Sardor Qulmatov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Sello Jaftha still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Metallurg would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Market

The Mayed Muhsin question follows Metallurg around

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

In brief