The Malavan Courier
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Malavan put Vahid Pouraliganji on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Match4 Aug 2029
The wait goes on for Malavan
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market6 Aug 2029
Mohammad Taheramini has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Malavan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Mohammad Ahleshakheh signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mohammad Ahleshakheh and Malavan agree another 2 years.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Ghaem Eslamikhah 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 Malavan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market6 Aug 2029
Saman Shojaei is a Malavan player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market6 Aug 2029
Ehsan Nekounam is a Malavan player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market6 Aug 2029
Mohammad Ghoddos is a Malavan player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
Nobody could get near Iliya Imani
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Abouazar Safarzadeh
- Player ratings One of those days for Ghaem Eslamikhah
- Squad Malavan count the cost of losing Younes Akbarpour