The Rah Ahan Herald
Market31 Aug 2026
Rah Ahan turn down Al Nasr for Karim Ghoddos
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
Ahmad Ebrahimi hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rah Ahan can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A goal and an assist for Mehdi Karimi — 7.66
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.66 beside his name.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Rah Ahan
Mehdi Karimi 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Rah Ahan leaking at the back
5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Pejman Dejagah 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Reza Hajsafi
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Vahid Vafaei
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match29 Aug 2026
Mehdi Karimi rescues a point for Rah Ahan
It needed Mehdi Karimi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Saba, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Squad Rah Ahan pick somebody else ahead of Reza Gholizadeh
- Player ratings Ramin Azmoun never got going
- Market Rah Ahan borrow Jordan Barrera