Marked for Ehsan Taremi
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Apr 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 102 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad24 Apr 2028
Santiago Briñone 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.
Loan watch24 Apr 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sepahan, and 4 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
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Market14 Jun 2027
Tractor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sepahan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market14 Jun 2027
The chase for Pedram Ghazipour ended with $1.5M changing hands and Zob Ahan out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market14 Jun 2027
The fee is $1.4M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Zob Ahan drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market14 Jun 2027
The chase for Ehsan Taremi ended with $1.3M changing hands and Siah Jamegan out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad14 Jun 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 Sepahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Aria Yousefi 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.
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Steady
Market14 Jun 2027
$1.3M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Squad14 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Masoud Moharrami out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siah Jamegan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
Supporters turn on the $1.3M sale of Ehsan Taremi
He is going to Sepahan, the club has $1.3M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
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Steady
Squad7 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Masoud Moharrami out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siah Jamegan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market7 Jun 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 Siah Jamegan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Morteza Mohammadi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A muscle injury sidelines Nelson Eliseche for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Siah Jamegan will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market7 Jun 2027
Sepahan are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Siah Jamegan will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad31 May 2027
A fracture rules Masoud Moharrami out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siah Jamegan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad31 May 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Siah Jamegan may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad31 May 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Squad
Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 May 2027
A fracture rules Masoud Moharrami out for 35 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Siah Jamegan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 May 2027
Ehsan Taremi 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.
Squad24 May 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 Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.