Ashkan Vafaei

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20 Nov 2028
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Marked for Ashkan Vafaei

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The Zhetysu Post

4 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market4 Sep 2028

Aslan Akhmedov 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 Zhetysu can pretend not to have heard.

Market4 Sep 2028

Zhetysu turn down Akzhaiyk for Aslan Akhmedov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Shoqan Abzalov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zhetysu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Ashkan Vafaei gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ashkan Vafaei has just signed for Zhetysu, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad4 Sep 2028

Zakhele Shabangu 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 Zhetysu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom4 Sep 2028

Zhetysu beat the market to Idris Abdulrasheed from Tobol

Tobol will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Idris Abdulrasheed has pre-agreed a move to Zhetysu, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

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The Padideh Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Nobody could get near Ehsan Shojaei

Successful dribbles: 50. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad16 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vouria Shojaei

52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Padideh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces16 Aug 2027

Padideh sell a favourite for $170.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Shahriar Karimi was one of the reasons people came, and $170.0K does not replace that by itself.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Ehsan Shojaei signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ehsan Shojaei commits to Padideh for another 4 years.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Ahmad Mohammadi 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 Padideh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market16 Aug 2027

Padideh sell Shahriar Karimi for $170.0K

Shahriar Karimi has left for Saipa in a $170.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Match14 Aug 2027

Amir Taremi sends Padideh past Esteghlal Khuzestan

It finished 1‑0, and it was Amir Taremi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Padideh.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

A masterclass from Amir Taremi

Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad16 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Alejandro Contreras

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

In brief