The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Gostaresh Foulad tie Mohammad Ghoddos down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Tobías Schilman signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tobías Schilman commits to Gostaresh Foulad for another 4 years.
Market6 Aug 2029
As if he never left: Kaveh Dejagah returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Kaveh Dejagah is a Gostaresh Foulad player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market6 Aug 2029
As if he never left: Reza Torabi returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Reza Torabi is a Gostaresh Foulad player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market6 Aug 2029
Reza Hosseini comes home
The shirt still fits. Reza Hosseini is back at Gostaresh Foulad, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market6 Aug 2029
Amir Beiranvand is a Gostaresh Foulad 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.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Dennis Mena 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 Gostaresh Foulad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Aug 2029
The manager makes an example of Dennis Mena
“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.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
A masterclass from Vouria Yazdani
Marked 8.50 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Match Vouria Yazdani rescues a point for Gostaresh Foulad
- Player ratings Amir Yazdani leaves them behind him
- Squad Majid Pouraliganji loses the armband