Ehsan Ghoddos

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6 Sep 2026
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The Sepahan Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Sepahan say no — this time

The offer from Esteghlal Khuzestan for Hadi Mohammadi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Sepahan

Mohammad Reza Akhbari 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.

Match

Sepahan see off Rah Ahan

Three points for Sepahan, 1‑0 the final word against Rah Ahan in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Giorgi Gvelesiani 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.

Player ratings

Mehdi Limouchi takes the honours

Marked 7.81 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Sepahan had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

7 new faces, and Sepahan are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

Sepahan pick somebody else ahead of Mohammad Reza Akhbari

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

Hadi Mohammadi told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Hadi Mohammadi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sepahan.

Player ratings

Mohammad Mehdi Mohebi ran the game

Chances created: 8. 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

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The Padideh Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Padideh tear Esteghlal Khuzestan apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑0 against Esteghlal Khuzestan, and it could have been more.

Squad

3 goals for Amir Torabi

The match ball belongs to Amir Torabi, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Shahriar Azmoun scored one and made one — 7.85

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.85, and 2 involvements.

Squad

Vouria Azmoun 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.

Player ratings

Amir Torabi in the eights

A performance of 9.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The terraces

Padideh supporters have found a favourite in Ali Gholizadeh

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ali Gholizadeh has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

No hiding place for Ehsan Azmoun

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

Squad

Words at Padideh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ali Gholizadeh 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.

The terraces

A long trip to Esteghlal Khuzestan worth making

5-0, and a corner of somebody else's ground that made more noise than the rest of it put together. Those coaches leave before dawn and nobody outside them ever mentions it.

In brief