Mehdi Taremi

Central Defender - Saba
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Mehdi Taremi

13 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alireza Hosseini breaks a bone — 88 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Clint Irwin keeps Saba in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Saba

Mohammad 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.

Match

Zob Ahan take the points off Saba

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Ashkan Ebrahimi 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.

Player ratings

Karim Ebrahimi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Karim Ebrahimi

Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Alireza Hosseini breaks a bone — 109 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 109 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Mohammad Moharrami 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 Saba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Saba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ashkan Ebrahimi 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.

Match

Saba get the job done against Sepahan

A 2‑1 win over Sepahan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Pejman Karimi out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Pejman Karimi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

3 Edition

The Saba Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at Saba

Mohammad 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.

Market

Esteghlal Ahvaz are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Saba will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Ashkan Ebrahimi 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.

Player ratings

Reza Hajsafi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Saba come up short against Tractor

Tractor left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Mohammad Moharrami gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Ashkan Ebrahimi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Market

Amir Taremi told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Amir Taremi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Saba.

Market

The shop window has Hossein Beiranvand in it

Saba have let the market know Hossein Beiranvand can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief