The Padideh Gazette
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Omid Jahanbakhsh
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Padideh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
Mehdi Nekounam hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Padideh can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
Cruel end for Tractor as Padideh pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Padideh scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Pejman Jahanbakhsh at 20 — 10.00
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Pejman Jahanbakhsh did not need any: 10.00, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad31 Aug 2026
3 goals for Pejman Jahanbakhsh
The match ball belongs to Pejman Jahanbakhsh, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Ramin Noorafkan yet — 7.82
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match29 Aug 2026
Padideh make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Padideh have 4 straight wins of it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Too dear: Padideh walk away from Abolfazl Zoleykhaei
$940.0K was the most the club would pay and Esteghlal were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Padideh make their move for Pouya Reshadi Mohammadi
$390.0K on the table at Esteghlal Khuzestan. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
In brief
- Match Padideh find a way past Tractor
- Transfer targets Foolad tell Padideh: Mohammad Reza Keshavarzi is not for sale
- The dugout Mohammad Torabi gets it from the manager