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The Padideh Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market17 Aug 2026

Tractor come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Padideh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Saman Yazdani, 20, steals the show — 8.01

Marked 8.01 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market17 Aug 2026

Ahmad Torabi moves on

Tractor pay $5.7M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market17 Aug 2026

Business is business: Mohammad Jahanbakhsh goes

Saipa paid $3.0M and Padideh took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Padideh go back to the board over Houman Elyasi

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $122.4K — a club that wants Houman Elyasi enough to be asked twice.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Padideh

Mehdi Hajsafi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Padideh make their move for Houman Elyasi

$120.0K on the table at Zob Ahan. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Padideh bid $87.0K for Amir Savaed

The offer went to Malavan this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

No deal for Alireza Amirkhani at that price

Padideh offered $170.0K; Foolad said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

In brief

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2 Edition

The Padideh Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match8 Aug 2026

Padideh tear Esteghlal Khuzestan apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Esteghlal Khuzestan, and it could have been more.

Market10 Aug 2026

Padideh turn down Sepahan for Ahmad Torabi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Both of them Mehdi Gholizadeh's — 8.36

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Padideh rebuffed over Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tractor have kept their man, and Padideh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Padideh go back to the board over Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $5.0M — a club that wants Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh enough to be asked twice.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ahmad Torabi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ahmad Torabi and Padideh agree another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Padideh

Ahmad Torabi 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Padideh bid $170.0K for Alireza Amirkhani

The offer went to Foolad this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Market10 Aug 2026

Mohammad Jahanbakhsh attracts admirers

The name of Mohammad Jahanbakhsh has come up in conversations Padideh were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

In brief

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The Padideh Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ahmad Torabi 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 Padideh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Padideh

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mehdi Gholizadeh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match1 Aug 2026

Padideh come up short against Esteghlal

Esteghlal left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market3 Aug 2026

Padideh promote Morteza Khodadad from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Morteza Khodadad has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market3 Aug 2026

Ali Vafaei steps up from the Padideh academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ali Vafaei 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

Padideh promote Hossein Ebrahimi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hossein Ebrahimi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market3 Aug 2026

One of our own: Karim Karimi joins the Padideh first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Karim Karimi is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Ramin Jahanbakhsh

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Ahmad Torabi asks for a word with the manager
  • Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Padideh