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197 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

6 May 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom6 May 2030

Gostaresh Foulad spell it out for Ramin Azmoun

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Ramin Azmoun has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Squad6 May 2030

Mehdi Ghoddos breaks a bone — 83 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market6 May 2030

Vouria Beiranvand puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gostaresh Foulad, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout6 May 2030

Erfan Ghahremani keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gostaresh Foulad may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad6 May 2030

Words exchanged at Gostaresh Foulad

Shahriar Shojaei 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.

Squad6 May 2030

A row about effort at Gostaresh Foulad

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

The dugout6 May 2030

Mehdi Vafaei 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.

The dugout6 May 2030

Mehran Ahmadi without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Mehran Ahmadi was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

Boardroom6 May 2030

$2.1M taken back off the Gostaresh Foulad table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

In brief

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192 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

1 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Apr 2030

Mehdi Ghoddos breaks a bone — 118 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom1 Apr 2030

Pressure builds in the Gostaresh Foulad boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad1 Apr 2030

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Shahriar Shojaei 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.

Squad1 Apr 2030

A row about effort at Gostaresh Foulad

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

Market1 Apr 2030

Ali Al-Yammahi told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ali Al-Yammahi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Gostaresh Foulad.

The dugout1 Apr 2030

The manager makes an example of Sardar Jahanbakhsh

“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.

Market1 Apr 2030

The Shahriar Shojaei talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gostaresh Foulad know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad1 Apr 2030

Ali Al-Yammahi still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Gostaresh Foulad would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

The dugout1 Apr 2030

a squad player knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and a squad player trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief