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3 Edition

The Saipa Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market17 Aug 2026

Saipa make Mohammad Jahanbakhsh the dearest name in their history

$3.0M. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Squad17 Aug 2026

11 saves: Hasan Pourhamidi was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A brace, and Bahman Salari takes the afternoon — 8.72

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Bahman Salari provided it, and the 8.72 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

An offer of $790.0K for Abolfazl Zoleykhaei

Saipa have gone to Esteghlal with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Saipa

Ali Dehghan 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.

The terraces17 Aug 2026

Saipa spend $3.0M on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $3.0M for Mohammad Jahanbakhsh, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Match15 Aug 2026

Saipa find a way past Zob Ahan

Zob Ahan made Saipa work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match15 Aug 2026

Saipa settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Zob Ahan spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

One of those days for Ali Dehghan

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Saipa training over how hard people work
  • Squad Too much change too quickly at Saipa
  • The dugout Ramin Moharrami: “That is the standard”
Back issues
2 Edition

The Saipa Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $2.8M for Mohammad Jahanbakhsh

Saipa have gone to Padideh with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Mohammad Chaharmahali, 33, rolls back the years — 8.01

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Saipa

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

Match8 Aug 2026

Saipa get the job done against Saba

A 2‑1 win over Saba, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market10 Aug 2026

Saipa promote Kaveh Ghoddos from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kaveh Ghoddos 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Masoud Khodadad steps up from the Saipa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Masoud Khodadad 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Shahriar Dejagah steps up from the Saipa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Shahriar Dejagah 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Saman Ghoddos joins the Saipa first team

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

Match8 Aug 2026

Bahman Salari answers Saba immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Bahman Salari had Saipa level again within 3 minutes, and Saba never got to play with a lead at all.

In brief

1 Edition

The Saipa Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ali Dehghan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ali Dehghan and Saipa agree another 2 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Saipa

Ali Dehghan and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

3 academy graduates step up at Saipa

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Saipa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohammad Sattari 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Saipa rebuffed over Ali Karimi

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

Market3 Aug 2026

One of our own: Mehdi Hajsafi joins the Saipa first team

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

Market3 Aug 2026

Alireza Mohammadi steps up from the Saipa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alireza Mohammadi 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

Ramin Noorafkan steps up from the Saipa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ramin Noorafkan 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

Saipa and Hamid Golzari are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief