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The Persepolis Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Amir Hossein Hosseinzadeh

Persepolis asked and Tractor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market17 Aug 2026

Persepolis sign Saman Fallah for $1.7M

The paperwork is done: Saman Fallah joins from Esteghlal in a deal worth $1.7M. Now comes the harder part.

Market17 Aug 2026

Persepolis turn down Zamalek for Oston O'runov

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

Match15 Aug 2026

Persepolis cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Persepolis

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Persepolis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dániel Gera 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Mohammad Mohebi sends Persepolis past Foolad

It finished 2‑1, and it was Mohammad Mohebi’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Persepolis.

Market17 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan watching Alireza Enayatzadeh

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Persepolis have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Ninety minutes of Mohammad Mohebi at his very best

Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Persepolis.

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The Persepolis Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market10 Aug 2026

Danial Eiri turns Al Shaab down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Squad10 Aug 2026

8 saves: Payam Niazmand was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

A brace, and Dániel Gera takes the afternoon — 8.42

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dániel Gera provided it, and the 8.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Persepolis agree $1.7M for Saman Fallah

The clubs have shaken hands with Esteghlal; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Mohammad Mohebi gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mohammad Mohebi has just signed for Persepolis, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

No deal for Mehdi Hajsafi at that price

Persepolis offered $7.8M; Padideh 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.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Persepolis — 7.96

1 for Marko Bakić, marked 7.96, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Boardroom10 Aug 2026

Persepolis go back to the board over Saman Fallah

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.9M — a club that wants Saman Fallah enough to be asked twice.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Persepolis

Hossein Kanaani 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.

In brief

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The Persepolis Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Alireza Enayatzadeh goes up and wins it — 7.59

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.59 for the rest of it.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eyes on Danial Eiri again

The phone has started ringing about Danial Eiri again, and this time the name on the line is Al Shaab. Persepolis are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Hossein Kanaani signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hossein Kanaani commits to Persepolis for another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Hossein Kanaani 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 Persepolis this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Persepolis

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 Persepolis

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

The terraces3 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Alireza Enayatzadeh

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match1 Aug 2026

Persepolis get the job done against Siah Jamegan

A 2‑0 win over Siah Jamegan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market3 Aug 2026

One of our own: Masoud Dejagah joins the Persepolis first team

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

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