Mohammad Ghoddos

Goalkeeper - Naft Tehran
27 Nov 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mohammad Ghoddos

55 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

27 matches without a win for Naft Tehran

The run now stands at 27, and the questions being asked around Naft Tehran are no longer polite ones.

The terraces

Anger at Naft Tehran 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.

The dugout

Ahmad Savari: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Naft Tehran have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Naft Tehran rebuffed over Lorent Tolaj

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Plymouth Argyle have kept their man, and Naft Tehran go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Houman Elyasi at 21 — 8.14

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Houman Elyasi did not need any: 8.14, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Akbar Safarzadeh puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Naft Tehran, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Amir Abedzadeh 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 Naft Tehran this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

6 goals as Naft Tehran and Zob Ahan go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Naft Tehran and Zob Ahan, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Match

A bad afternoon for Naft Tehran against Zob Ahan

2‑4 to Zob Ahan, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Naft Tehran

26 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.

Match

A hiding for Naft Tehran

Beaten 0‑3 by Saba, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Soumaïla Bakayoko rejects the move

Naft Tehran had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Egnatia Rrogozhinë, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at Naft Tehran

Amir Abedzadeh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A move Mohammad Ghoddos 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. Mohammad Ghoddos is living that version at Naft Tehran, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

A row about effort at Naft Tehran

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Saeid Aghaei was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Sochi tell Naft Tehran: Zakhar Fedorov is not for sale

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Amir Hossein Neshatjoo

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

Boardroom

Inquest at Naft Tehran

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Player ratings Arash Hashemi was unplayable
  • Transfer targets A loan move for Leonel Wamba is in the works