The Padideh Gazette
Market29 May 2028
Mohammad Gandomi is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Padideh is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad29 May 2028
Words exchanged at Padideh
Mohammad Reza Akhbari and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad29 May 2028
Reza Ghoddos 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.
Market29 May 2028
The Ali Yazdani question follows Padideh around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ali Yazdani’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout29 May 2028
Amir Reza Jeddi gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Amir Reza Jeddi is on it.
The dugout29 May 2028
A door opens for Mohammad Amini
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- The dugout Mohammad Gandomi asks for a word with the manager
- Boardroom The Padideh production line keeps running
- Squad Ehsan Pouraliganji is fit again