Ehsan Ghoddos

Striker - Gostaresh Foulad
15 Aug 2029
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Marked for Ehsan Ghoddos

103 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Jul 2028

The knee: Saeid Gholizadeh out for 131 days

131 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gostaresh Foulad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market17 Jul 2028

Alireza Moharrami 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 Gostaresh Foulad can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets17 Jul 2028

Ali Sheikhan is a medical away from Gostaresh Foulad

The deal with Esteghlal Ahvaz is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Transfer targets17 Jul 2028

Too dear: Gostaresh Foulad walk away from Ramin Azmoun

$590.0K was the most the club would pay and Rah Ahan were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets17 Jul 2028

Gostaresh Foulad rebuffed over Farzad Taiebipour

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Esteghlal have kept their man, and Gostaresh Foulad go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets17 Jul 2028

A loan move for Alisher Odilov is in the works

Gostaresh Foulad have made the call to Neftchi. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad17 Jul 2028

Alireza Moharrami 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.

Market17 Jul 2028

The Saeid Gholizadeh story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Saeid Gholizadeh signs something — a contract at Gostaresh Foulad or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout17 Jul 2028

The manager makes Erfan Ghahremani a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Gostaresh Foulad. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

Back issues
94 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad15 May 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Karim Vafaei

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Gostaresh Foulad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market15 May 2028

Ashkan Karimi asks to leave Gostaresh Foulad

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad15 May 2028

Saman Taremi 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.

The dugout15 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Alireza Dejagah

“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.

Squad15 May 2028

A row about effort at Gostaresh Foulad

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Arya Delavari was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad15 May 2028

No place for Ehsan Ghoddos in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Gostaresh Foulad are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

93 Edition

The Gostaresh Foulad Sentinel

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 May 2028

The knee: Karim Vafaei out for 41 days

41 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Gostaresh Foulad lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad8 May 2028

Tempers go at Gostaresh Foulad

Saman Taremi 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.

Squad8 May 2028

A row about effort at Gostaresh Foulad

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amir Nekounam was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout8 May 2028

The manager makes an example of Erfan Ghahremani

“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.

Market8 May 2028

A long bet from Gostaresh Foulad on Ehsan Ghoddos

He is 18, and nobody at Gostaresh Foulad signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Squad8 May 2028

Ehsan Ghoddos stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ehsan Ghoddos and Gostaresh Foulad agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief