Morteza Hajsafi

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26 Dec 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Morteza Hajsafi

55 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The wait goes on for Padideh

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Mehdi Yazdani signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mehdi Yazdani and Padideh agree another 4 years.

Squad

Vouria Ghoddos 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.

Squad

Mehdi Yazdani 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Karim Rezaeian

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

Loan watch

Kaveh Ghoddos wants to come home

“I did not go to Malavan to sit and watch. I want to come back to Padideh and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.

Market

Al-Taawoun expected to open talks for Morteza Hajsafi

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Padideh will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

Point won or two lost for Padideh?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Esteghlal Khuzestan? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ashkan Nekounam

Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
54 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Milad Cheshmi 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 The request is on a desk at Padideh, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The run at home goes on for Padideh

10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

Tempers go at Padideh

Vouria Ghoddos 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.

Squad

Words at Padideh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehdi Yazdani 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.

Market

Padideh sell Amir Vafaei for $28.0K

Amir Vafaei has left for Saipa in a $28.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Sivasspor are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Padideh will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Al-Taawoun join the queue for Morteza Hajsafi

Add another name to the list: Al-Taawoun have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Morteza Hajsafi. The answer from Padideh has not changed — yet.

Squad

Sardar Ghoddos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sardar Ghoddos and Padideh agree another 2 years.

Player ratings

Saman Shojaei was the difference for Padideh

Marked 7.52. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief