The Siah Jamegan Herald
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ali Jahanbakhsh breaks a bone — 70 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 70 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market12 Oct 2026
Ali Jahanbakhsh asks to leave Siah Jamegan
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Morteza Karimi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.10
A mark of 8.10 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Alireza Nekounam
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ali Vafaei 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 Siah Jamegan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Oct 2026
Siah Jamegan see off Naft Tehran
Three points for Siah Jamegan, 2‑1 the final word against Naft Tehran in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Ali Vafaei
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured for Amadou Niang
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Siah Jamegan told Amadou Niang something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Reza Beiranvand
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Reza Beiranvand, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Siah Jamegan and Vouria Torabi
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Mohammad Ghoddos
- Player ratings Saman Ghoddos spends the afternoon fouling