The Tractor Courier
Market16 Aug 2027
Eyes on Masoud Zayer Kazemayn again
The phone has started ringing about Masoud Zayer Kazemayn again, and this time the name on the line is Antalyaspor. Tractor are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Tractor
Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Suood Ali at Tractor
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Suood Ali is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Tomislav Štrkalj stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tomislav Štrkalj and Tractor agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match14 Aug 2027
Tractor get the job done against Malavan
A 2‑0 win over Malavan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
One of those days for Mohammad Naderi
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
A masterclass from Domagoj Drožđek
Marked 8.26 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Ninety minutes of Tomislav Štrkalj at his very best
Marked 8.03. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tractor.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Tractor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raúl Torres 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.
In brief
- Market Tractor sign Saman Gholizadeh, one for the future
- Market Tractor buy the years ahead of Ashkan Noorafkan
- Market A long bet from Tractor on Morteza Noorafkan