The Foolad Courier
Squad16 Jul 2035
A knee injury of the worst kind for Saad Al-Qahtani
90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Foolad lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market16 Jul 2035
Saba come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Foolad did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market16 Jul 2035
Ashkan Pouraliganji has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Foolad they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Tempers go at Foolad
Hossein Kazeminia 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 Jul 2035
Words at Foolad training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saleh Hardani 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.
Squad16 Jul 2035
Dan Levy signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dan Levy and Foolad agree another 4 years.
In brief
- Market The Hossein Torabi conversation is coming
- Market Foolad buy the years ahead of Dan Levy