The Padideh Gazette
Match5 Aug 2028
Still nobody has beaten Padideh
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Ashkan Rashedi at Padideh
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ashkan Rashedi is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
A new deal for Sardar Mohammadi
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Tempers go at Padideh
Ashkan Pouraliganji 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.
Squad7 Aug 2028
A late step up for Mohammad Daneshgar
At 34 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom7 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Padideh
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets7 Aug 2028
Padideh rebuffed over Koshaim Al-Qahtani
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Al-Taawoun have kept their man, and Padideh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Aug 2028
Ehsan Noorafkan 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.
Market7 Aug 2028
Ehsan Rezaeian steps up from the Padideh academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ehsan Rezaeian 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Majid Ghoddos joins the Padideh first team
- Market Padideh promote Ehsan Dejagah from within
- Market Padideh promote Morteza Gholizadeh from within