Ehsan Khodadad

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261 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

28 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets28 Jul 2031

Jérémie Gnali turns down Naft Tehran

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Zira keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad28 Jul 2031

Amir Abedzadeh 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 Naft Tehran this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Jul 2031

The step up is real for Ehsan Khodadad

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.

Squad28 Jul 2031

Akromjon Komilov has improved at 35, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Transfer targets28 Jul 2031

Door shut on Ahmad Noorafkan

Naft Tehran asked and Rah Ahan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad28 Jul 2031

Words at Naft Tehran training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pouria Meshalgerdi 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.

Transfer targets28 Jul 2031

A loan move for Jorman Mendoza is in the works

Naft Tehran have made the call to Envigado. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout28 Jul 2031

Parham Movaghari 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 Parham Movaghari is on it.

Market28 Jul 2031

The Amir Mohammad Panahi question follows Naft Tehran around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Amir Mohammad Panahi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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254 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

9 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Jun 2031

The knee: Alireza Dejagah out for 57 days

57 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Naft Tehran lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Transfer targets9 Jun 2031

Aria Hosseinifard due for a Naft Tehran medical

Everything agreed with Foolad, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Words exchanged at Naft Tehran

Amir Abedzadeh 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.

Market9 Jun 2031

Eyes on Amin Heydari again

The phone has started ringing about Amin Heydari again, and this time the name on the line is Esteghlal Ahvaz. Naft Tehran are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad9 Jun 2031

Parham Movaghari 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.

The dugout9 Jun 2031

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Squad9 Jun 2031

Ehsan Khodadad signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ehsan Khodadad commits to Naft Tehran for another 3 years.

The dugout9 Jun 2031

No hiding place for Ramin Azizi

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

The dugout9 Jun 2031

Ramin Azizi 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 Ramin Azizi is on it.

In brief

253 Edition

The Naft Tehran Sentinel

2 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Jun 2031

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alireza Dejagah

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

Squad2 Jun 2031

Mahan Sadeghi honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Naft Tehran had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Squad2 Jun 2031

A falling-out at Naft Tehran

Amir Abedzadeh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad2 Jun 2031

A row about effort at Naft Tehran

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Parham Movaghari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout2 Jun 2031

The manager makes an example of Akromjon Komilov

“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.

Market2 Jun 2031

A stepping stone, not a home, for Ehsan Khodadad

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Naft Tehran were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

Transfer targets2 Jun 2031

A loan move for Meshal Al-Alaeli is in the works

Naft Tehran have made the call to Al-Ettifaq. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets2 Jun 2031

A loan move for Hossein Kazeminia is in the works

Naft Tehran have made the call to Foolad. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market2 Jun 2031

A long bet from Naft Tehran on Ashkan Azmoun

He is 18, and nobody at Naft Tehran signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief