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The Rah Ahan Herald

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad3 Jul 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pejman Ebrahimi

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

Market3 Jul 2028

Rah Ahan turn down Al-Qadisiyah for Lukas Đikić

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Mehdi Moharrami signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mehdi Moharrami commits to Rah Ahan for another 3 years.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Tempers go at Rah Ahan

Mehdi Moharrami 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.

Squad3 Jul 2028

Words at Rah Ahan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Milad Kor 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.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

$5.0M on the table at Rah Ahan

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.

Boardroom3 Jul 2028

Rah Ahan sign 7 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

Market3 Jul 2028

Saman Khodadad told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Saman Khodadad has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Rah Ahan.

Market3 Jul 2028

The Majid Jahanbakhsh story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Majid Jahanbakhsh signs something — a contract at Rah Ahan or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

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The Rah Ahan Herald

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad27 Sep 2027

Reza Nekounam damages knee ligaments — 99 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 99 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.

Match25 Sep 2027

Kaveh Vafaei leads the rout of Esteghlal Khuzestan

3‑0, and Kaveh Vafaei took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Rah Ahan tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Match25 Sep 2027

10 unbeaten for Rah Ahan

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Rah Ahan did not have in the autumn.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Rah Ahan

Majid Moharrami 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 ratings27 Sep 2027

Majid Jahanbakhsh in the eights

A performance of 8.41 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

One of those days for Kaveh Vafaei

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

Ninety minutes of Saeid Pouraliganji at his very best

Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rah Ahan.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Majid Jahanbakhsh is carrying Rah Ahan

7 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Saman Khodadad 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.

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