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The Zob Ahan Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan pay Siah Jamegan $6.3M for a proper upgrade

Siah Jamegan did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $6.3M for Sandro Negri, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Market24 Aug 2026

Hasan Shoushtari asks to leave Zob Ahan

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market24 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan turn down Esteghlal Ahvaz for Hadi Baghban

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

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan bid $130.0K for Abolfazl Zoleykhaei

The offer went to Esteghlal 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Parsa Jafari 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 Zob Ahan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan baulk at the price for Mohammad Hossein Sadeghi

Persepolis wanted more than $190.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

The town asked, and Zob Ahan paid $6.3M

Sandro Negri was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $6.3M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Door shut on Kouamé Autonne

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

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Zob Ahan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shayan Mosleh 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.

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The Zob Ahan Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan baulk at the price for Adrián Bernabé

Parma wanted more than $27.4M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

$6.3M settles it between the clubs for Sandro Negri

Siah Jamegan have accepted the money. What Zob Ahan do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan go back to the board over Adrián Bernabé

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $34.7M — a club that wants Adrián Bernabé enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Kouamé Autonne turns down Zob Ahan

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Al Ain keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan make their move for Alireza Enayatzadeh

$130.0K on the table at Persepolis. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Zob Ahan

Parsa Jafari 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan come up short against Saipa

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

Market17 Aug 2026

Eyes on Ali Eslami again

The phone has started ringing about Ali Eslami again, and this time the name on the line is Malavan. Zob Ahan are listening politely and promising nothing.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Parsa Jafari gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

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2 Edition

The Zob Ahan Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan make their move for Adrián Bernabé

$27.4M on the table at Parma. 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 targets10 Aug 2026

Kouamé Autonne due for a Zob Ahan medical

Everything agreed with Al Ain, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Ehsan Pahlevan

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Mohammad Javad Mohammadi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mohammad Javad Mohammadi and Zob Ahan agree another 3 years.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan make their move for Mohammad Hossein Sadeghi

$160.0K on the table at Persepolis. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Zob Ahan

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

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Zob Ahan rebuffed over Marcel Ratnik

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Hossein Beiranvand steps up from the Zob Ahan academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Hossein Beiranvand 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: Mohammad Vafaei joins the Zob Ahan first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mohammad Vafaei 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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The Zob Ahan Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match1 Aug 2026

No mercy from Zob Ahan

Esteghlal Khuzestan will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Zob Ahan were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Omid Latifi scores twice — 8.36

Two goals and a mark of 8.36 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Houman Elyasi, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.85

A mark of 7.85 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Mohammad Ghorbani

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Rahman Jafari signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rahman Jafari and Zob Ahan agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Zob Ahan

Ehsan Pahlevan 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

2 academy players handed senior numbers at Zob Ahan

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.

The terraces3 Aug 2026

One of their own: Houman Elyasi

He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eyes on Sobhan Khaghani again

The phone has started ringing about Sobhan Khaghani again, and this time the name on the line is Saipa. Zob Ahan are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief