The Rah Ahan Herald
Boardroom8 Jun 2037
Interim Coach has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Rah Ahan can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom8 Jun 2037
The Rah Ahan board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market8 Jun 2037
Dimas Darmawan 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 Rah Ahan can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Jun 2037
Fahad Bader 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 Rah Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Jun 2037
Ahmad Mohammadi signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ahmad Mohammadi and Rah Ahan agree another 4 years.
Squad8 Jun 2037
Saeid Azmoun falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market8 Jun 2037
Foolad expected to open talks for Shahriar Rezaeian
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Rah Ahan will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Market8 Jun 2037
Saeid Azmoun linked with a move away
The name of Saeid Azmoun keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Rah Ahan say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad8 Jun 2037
The manager's exit leaves Ali Abdurahmonov exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Ali Abdurahmonov is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.