Marked for Kaveh Pouraliganji
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Aug 2027
15 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.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Padideh is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Boardroom9 Aug 2027
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $189.1K — a club that wants Amin Saedi enough to be asked twice.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vahid Ghoddos and Padideh agree another 2 years.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
The offer went to Foolad 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Persepolis have kept their man, and Padideh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
“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.
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Steady
Squad2 Aug 2027
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Padideh lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market2 Aug 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Padideh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad2 Aug 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vahid Ghoddos and Padideh agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Padideh
Shahriar Gholizadeh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Padideh
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The terraces2 Aug 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Alireza Homaeifard from Persepolis for $620.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al-Hilal have kept their man, and Padideh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market2 Aug 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kaveh Beiranvand has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
31 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
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.
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
$100.0K was the most the club would pay and Persepolis were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Padideh
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vouria Jahanbakhsh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Jul 2027
The medical room confirms 37 days on the sidelines for Morteza Torabi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market26 Jul 2027
Roham Mohammad Taghizadeh is 20, and Padideh have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Sardar Torabi 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 Sardar Torabi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
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 Vouria Jahanbakhsh is on it.
Market26 Jul 2027
The name of Shahriar Gholizadeh keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Padideh say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
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The dugout
A door opens for Ali Taremi
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Boardroom
The Padideh board put their names to it
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Jul 2027
38 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Padideh lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match19 Jul 2027
Padideh refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 59 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Padideh and Persepolis have settled on $35.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market19 Jul 2027
The chase for Aria Hosseinifard ended with $500.0K changing hands and Esteghlal out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market19 Jul 2027
The paperwork is done: Parham Ghannad joins from Malavan in a deal worth $510.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Shahriar Gholizadeh 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Padideh have gone to Persepolis with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
The terraces19 Jul 2027
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Parham Ghannad from Malavan for $510.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Vouria Jahanbakhsh 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.