The Sepahan Sentinel
Market3 Aug 2026
Siah Jamegan come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Sepahan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ricardo Alves signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ricardo Alves and Sepahan agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mohammad Reza Akhbari 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 Sepahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Sepahan
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Sepahan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ricardo Alves 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Siah Jamegan watching Mohammad Javad Akbari
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sepahan have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market3 Aug 2026
Amir Ghoddos steps up from the Sepahan academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Amir Ghoddos has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market3 Aug 2026
Sepahan promote Vahid Moharrami from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Vahid Moharrami has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Iván Sánchez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad Omid Nourafkan asks for a word with the manager
- Boardroom Sepahan turn down the training-ground plan
- Match No goals between Sepahan and Tractor