Marked for Ehsan Moharrami
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Dec 2026
Milad Gholizadeh damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hasan Jafari and Siah Jamegan agree another 1 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kaveh Khodadad 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.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match5 Dec 2026
1‑2 to Persepolis, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“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 Siah Jamegan, and 5 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Saeid Ebrahimi after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
87 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Siah Jamegan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Saeid Ghoddos 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ali Pouraliganji and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Siah Jamegan game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Malavan runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mohammad Torabi has his answer from Siah Jamegan; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Mohammad Torabi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
Milad Gholizadeh damages knee ligaments — 124 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 124 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Amir Hajsafi reports back to Siah Jamegan with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 7 in, 2 out at Siah Jamegan
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 7 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kaveh Khodadad 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Ehsan Moharrami for 15 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No place for Ali Shojaei in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Siah Jamegan are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mohammad Reza Bordbar’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Siah Jamegan needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sepahan come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Siah Jamegan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ehsan Moharrami had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Saeid Ghoddos commits to Siah Jamegan for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Alireza Cheshmi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pejman Nekounam was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.