The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Match2 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Gostaresh Foulad
0‑2 against Persepolis, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market7 Sep 2026
Not going: Pejman Yazdani stays at Gostaresh Foulad
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Naft Tehran had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Gostaresh Foulad
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Gostaresh Foulad are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
6 saves: Pejman Azmoun was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 8 in, 0 out at Gostaresh Foulad
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
Milad Cheshmi 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 The request is on a desk at Gostaresh Foulad, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Esteghlal Khuzestan deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ehsan Rezaeian reports back to Gostaresh Foulad with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a goal for Gostaresh Foulad
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Gostaresh Foulad rebuffed over Faisal Al-Ghamdi
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al-Ittihad have kept their man, and Gostaresh Foulad go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Player ratings Mehdi Khodadad runs at them all day
- Squad A step back for Ehsan Pouraliganji at Gostaresh Foulad
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Rahim Alboughobaish