The Foolad Courier
Match31 Oct 2026
9 matches without a win for Foolad
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Foolad are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Amir Masoud Sarabadani runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match31 Oct 2026
Foolad cannot find the net
4 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ali Nemati 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 Foolad this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Saeid Sadeghi 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Sina Moridi
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sina Moridi, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Foolad
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
85% of the income goes out in wages at Foolad
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match31 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Foolad?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Saipa? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
In brief
- Market Foolad and Davoud Noushi Soufiani are talking past each other
- Market The Gustavo Blanco Leschuk talk will not go away