The Tractor Courier
Match4 Aug 2029
The wait goes on for Tractor
9 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
Saud Al-Rashed 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 Tractor can pretend not to have heard.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Alireza Beiranvand keeps Tractor in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Aleksandar Sedlar out for 21 days
The medical room confirms 21 days on the sidelines for Aleksandar Sedlar, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
A new deal for Mehdi Nekounam
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Tempers go at Tractor
Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh 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.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market6 Aug 2029
As if he never left: Shahriar Azmoun returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Shahriar Azmoun is a Tractor player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market6 Aug 2029
Milad Nekounam comes home
The shirt still fits. Milad Nekounam is back at Tractor, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
In brief
- Market Ehsan Shojaei is a Tractor player again
- Squad No hiding place for Sadegh Moharrami
- Player ratings A masterclass from Odiljon Hamrobekov