Ehsan Moharrami

Right Back - Padideh
13 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ehsan Moharrami

26 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

$1.5M — a new record at Padideh

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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Vahid Ebrahimi at 21 — 7.64

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Vahid Ebrahimi did not need any: 7.64, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Transfer targets

Santiago Eneme-Bocari will not be coming to Padideh

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sparta Prague is saying, and nobody at Padideh is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Remember the name: Vahid Ebrahimi

He is 21, he is averaging 7.12, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad

Mohammad Daneshgar 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.

The terraces

Padideh spend $1.5M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $1.5M for Aref Gholami, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Player ratings

Both jobs done by Ehsan Moharrami — 6.71

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 6.71, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

Transfer targets

Esteghlal tell Padideh: Esmaeil Gholizadeh is not for sale

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.

Match

Vahid Ebrahimi’s goal not enough for Padideh

Vahid Ebrahimi scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Persepolis, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Pejman Dejagah at Padideh

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pejman Dejagah is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A falling-out at Padideh

Mohammad Daneshgar and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Malavan tell Padideh: Behnam Barzay is not for sale

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.

Squad

The decline has begun for Yousef Vakia

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 34 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Padideh is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

Match

A bad afternoon for Padideh against Tractor

0‑1 to Tractor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Boardroom

$4.0M on the table at Padideh

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

The dugout

Ashkan Jahanbakhsh faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ashkan Jahanbakhsh after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Transfer targets

Padideh try to borrow Abouazar Safarzadeh

Malavan have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Amir Reza Jeddi is in the works

Padideh have made the call to Sepahan. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief