The Tractor Courier
Market3 Aug 2026
Emirates Club come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tractor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alireza Beiranvand stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Alireza Beiranvand and Tractor agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom3 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Tractor
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Tractor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tractor
Mehdi Torabi 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Tractor come up short against Sepahan
Sepahan left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Alireza Beiranvand
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alireza Beiranvand, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Ahmad Nekounam steps up from the Tractor academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ahmad Nekounam 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
One of our own: Ehsan Ebrahimi joins the Tractor first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ehsan Ebrahimi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Tractor promote Saeid Ebrahimi from within
- Squad Shoja Khalilzadeh stands down from international duty
- The dugout Shahriar Gholizadeh faces the questions