The Persepolis Courier
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Marko Bakić
115 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Persepolis lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match16 Nov 2026
Persepolis up to position 2
29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Persepolis
Hossein Kanaani and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Persepolis training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dániel Gera is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market16 Nov 2026
Ali Alipour told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Ali Alipour has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Persepolis.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ali Alipour gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Reza Moharrami out for 31 days
The medical room confirms 31 days on the sidelines for Reza Moharrami, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Persepolis
Something was said to Mohammad Omri and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
When it matters, Danial Eiri plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Market The Igor Sergeev talk will not go away
- Looking ahead A reunion for Ali Alipour
- The dugout Mohammad Omri knocks on the manager’s door