The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Match28 Aug 2027
7 matches without a win for Gostaresh Foulad
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Gostaresh Foulad are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Ali Beiranvand 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 Gostaresh Foulad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market30 Aug 2027
Milad Nekounam moves on
Siah Jamegan pay $310.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market30 Aug 2027
Gostaresh Foulad sell Ahmad Noorafkan for $140.0K
Ahmad Noorafkan has left for Siah Jamegan in a $140.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Santiago Fernández 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for Gostaresh Foulad against Esteghlal
1‑3 to Esteghlal, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Aug 2027
No hiding place for Lucio Garberi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lucio Garberi, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Gostaresh Foulad count the cost of losing Amir Torabi
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
The spotlight tightens on Santiago Fernández
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
In brief
- Player ratings Ashkan Nekounam runs at them all day
- Player ratings Hossein Beiranvand could not find anything
- Player ratings Ahmad Jahanbakhsh could not find anything