Shahriar Torabi

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
29 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Shahriar Torabi

54 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Gostaresh Foulad turn down Esteghlal Ahvaz for Alireza Yazdani

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

Squad

Ryota Kamihashi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ryota Kamihashi commits to Gostaresh Foulad for another 4 years.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Majid Hajsafi

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Omid Azmoun

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Karim Rezaeian 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

Vahid Karimi dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

Match

Gostaresh Foulad draw a blank against Rah Ahan

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Rah Ahan defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market

Gostaresh Foulad put Masoud Dejagah up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Masoud Dejagah may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Player ratings

Karim Rezaeian ran the game

Chances created: 6. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.

In brief

Back issues
49 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

$440.0K — a new record at Gostaresh Foulad

No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.

Boardroom

Gostaresh Foulad put Morteza Mohammadi on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom

The Gostaresh Foulad board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad

Karim 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 Gostaresh Foulad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

$440.0K for Ahmad Savari, and Gostaresh Foulad supporters approve

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: Ahmad Savari from Esteghlal Khuzestan for $440.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ali Moharrami

“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.

In brief