Mehdi Hajsafi

Striker - Siah Jamegan
28 Jun 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Mehdi Hajsafi

46 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

No thanks: Afshar Sedaghat rejects the move

Siah Jamegan had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Malavan, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

The step up is real for Reza Vafaei

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets

Siah Jamegan bid $73.0K for Mehdi Kiani Dehkiani

The offer went to Saipa this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Squad

Words exchanged at Siah Jamegan

Reza Rezaeian 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.

Squad

Alireza Gholizadeh stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alireza Gholizadeh and Siah Jamegan agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets

Siah Jamegan try to borrow Hossein Kazeminia

Foolad have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mehdi Hajsafi

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mehdi Hajsafi, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdollah Hosseini 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.

The dugout

Fabio Conti knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Siah Jamegan, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
30 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ramin Rezaeian is carrying Siah Jamegan

19 goals and a season average of 7.22. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad

Words exchanged at Siah Jamegan

Fabio Conti 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.

Player ratings

Reza Rezaeian runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Siah Jamegan find a way past Saipa

Saipa made Siah Jamegan work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Mehdi Jahanbakhsh

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout

Amin Saedi 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

6 new faces, and Siah Jamegan are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

A satisfied Omid Beiranvand

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Omid Beiranvand could afford to be generous.

Squad

Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abdollah Hosseini 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.

In brief

18 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Masoud Moharrami 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 Siah Jamegan can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

7 saves: Mohammad Gandomi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Words exchanged at Siah Jamegan

Mehdi Jahanbakhsh 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.

Match

Siah Jamegan come up short against Rah Ahan

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

The dugout

Mostafa Ahmadi 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.

Match

The half-term report on Siah Jamegan

Position 12, 19 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Omid Beiranvand to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

Hossein Nekounam 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.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Mohammad Gandomi

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Persepolis in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief