Marked for Pejman Ebrahimi
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Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2027
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market20 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Vahid Moharrami will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rah Ahan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ashkan Dejagah commits to Rah Ahan for another 2 years.
Squad20 Sep 2027
46 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Marked 7.65 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Rah Ahan had the best player on the pitch.
Match18 Sep 2027
It needed Masoud Rezaeian to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Padideh, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Marked 5.79, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Uneasy
Market23 Aug 2027
$590.0K. No player has ever cost Rah Ahan more, and expectation arrives with him.
Match21 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Rah Ahan
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match21 Aug 2027
6 matches without a win for Rah Ahan
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Rah Ahan are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market23 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Rah Ahan have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad23 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The medical room confirms 76 days on the sidelines for Pejman Ebrahimi, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
A defender's afternoon for Saeid Aghaei
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Steady
Squad26 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jul 2027
107 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market26 Jul 2027
Naft Tehran pay $45.0K, 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.
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Steady
Market28 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad28 Jun 2027
139 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“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.
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Steady
The terraces19 Oct 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
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Crisis
Match5 Sep 2026
Rah Ahan bow out of the cup
Zob Ahan go through and Rah Ahan go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rah Ahan can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Ashkan Noorafkan reports back to Rah Ahan with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mohammad Reza Ghobeishavi, and the manager let it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
123% of the income goes out in wages at Rah Ahan
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 4.55 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.