The Saba Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Reza Beiranvand
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Saba lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ahmad Jahanbakhsh asks to leave Saba
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alireza Moharrami 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ehsan Hosseini
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Saba training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karim Vafaei 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Saba sell Ehsan Hosseini for $52.0K
Ehsan Hosseini has left for Saipa in a $52.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Karim Vafaei
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Saba come up short against Esteghlal Ahvaz
Esteghlal Ahvaz left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market24 Aug 2026
The shop window has Reza Vafaei in it
Saba have let the market know Reza Vafaei can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Player ratings Omid Shojaei ran the game
- Market Mohammad Nekounam goes looking for football