Ehsan Yazdani

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8 Jul 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Ehsan Yazdani

48 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Ashkan Mohammadi damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.

Market

Nathan Steinwascher puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Siah Jamegan, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

A move Adrián Murillo would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Adrián Murillo is living that version at Siah Jamegan, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Ehsan Yazdani has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Siah Jamegan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Karim Karimi 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Jad Shibli at Siah Jamegan

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

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Siah Jamegan sell their best player to Malavan

$1.6M 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.

Squad

Ashkan Mohammadi damages knee ligaments — 39 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 39 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.

Match

Siah Jamegan are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 66 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

The terraces

Siah Jamegan sell a favourite for $1.6M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Saman Hajsafi was one of the reasons people came, and $1.6M does not replace that by itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Siah Jamegan

Karim Karimi 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Amir Mehdi Maghsoudi at Siah Jamegan

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Amir Mehdi Maghsoudi is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Vouria Moharrami moves on

Rah Ahan pay $30.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Ehsan Taremi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ehsan Taremi commits to Siah Jamegan for another 4 years.

Market

The Ehsan Yazdani conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Gostaresh Foulad will make the call about Ehsan Yazdani this week. Siah Jamegan have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

29 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Omid Gholizadeh runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Karim Karimi is carrying Siah Jamegan

28 goals and a season average of 7.65. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Match

Karim Karimi wins it after the whistle should have gone

92 minutes played. Karim Karimi found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Esteghlal Ahvaz went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

A brace, and Karim Karimi takes the afternoon — 9.28

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Karim Karimi provided it, and the 9.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Another one collected away from home

7 on the bounce on the road for Siah Jamegan. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad

Karim Karimi 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.

Squad

Words at Siah Jamegan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amin Al-Bukhari 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.

Match

Siah Jamegan find a way past Esteghlal Ahvaz

Esteghlal Ahvaz made Siah Jamegan work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The terraces

Siah Jamegan supporters have found a favourite in Ehsan Yazdani

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ehsan Yazdani 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.

In brief

4 Edition

The Siah Jamegan Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Omid Gholizadeh runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 67. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Siah Jamegan break the bank for Karim Karimi

$2.4M. No player has ever cost Siah Jamegan more, and expectation arrives with him.

Market

Morteza Noorafkan sold, and an era ends

$830.0K from Sepahan for Morteza Noorafkan. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

The terraces

Siah Jamegan sell a favourite for $830.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Morteza Noorafkan was one of the reasons people came, and $830.0K does not replace that by itself.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Saman Hajsafi at 18 — 7.67

The hardest thing about being 18 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Saman Hajsafi did not need any: 7.67, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market

Ehsan Yazdani 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Siah Jamegan

Vito Sanna 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.

The terraces

Siah Jamegan spend $2.4M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $2.4M for Karim Karimi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Market

Al Shaab watching Omid Rezaeian

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Siah Jamegan have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief