Do not expect many surprises in Branko's final 23

[The-Red]

Branko has proved over and over that he doesn't like "change", he picks a certain number of players and he works with them as much as "physically" possible, for that reason we are going to lose some talented players miss out on Germany...
I am guessing he will cross out most of the new comers and go to Germany with %90-%95 of the same old squat, even if some players might not be playing top form football [I hope I am wrong],,,There might be however one or two new faces that were in the past not part of the team melli's regulars.

Call this bad criticisim or good criticisim whatever you want, but I say it again with Branko, IFF's lack of planning and only one or two good friendlies we should be happy if we don't give up 3 or 4 goals against likes of MeXico and Por, it's sad that with the number of talented players that this generation of our footballers have, we don't have the technical staff and necessary support by IFF necessary to succeed in Germany, I hope I am wrong ppl, but as we get closer to the start of the WC, I become more hopeless of our chances against teams like MX and Por!
May God be with us in Germany.

[Paradigm]

The only major suprise will be that Iman Mobali will be added at the last second. Branko knows very well we will need Mobali if we are to face off Argentina or Holland.

[The-Red]

The only major suprise will be that Iman Mobali will be added at the last second. Branko knows very well we will need Mobali if we are to face off Argentina or Holland.

well, it looks like Mobali should be put into the final roster, if things behind the scene don't keep him out! He certainly deserve to be on the roster for Germany.

[yashar_fasihnia]

with the injury of jabbari and nikki, there could be a few surprises.

2 players already striked off, means only 5 more players to be striked off. for sure:
one will be a GK probably vaezi or roudbarian,
one will be a defender probably sadeghi,
one will be a forward probably khatibi,
one will be a midfielder probably shojaei,
and the last one could be rajabzadeh or enayati if kazemiyan is on top form because he is versatile and can be used both as forward and as wings and so he can in a way do the jobs of both rajabzadeh and enayati or maybe navidkia although with the injury of jabbari, branko will probably keep a creative midfielder like navidkia as sub unless rajabzadeh takes over navidkias seat. maybe even zare for his recent weak performances and bran*** constant playing of maneei in the swiss friendlies as LB. or it could be maneei himself because of the presence of madanchi, zandi, zare and even guys like kazemiyan, navidkia, teymourian and rajabzadeh who can all play on the wings incase of emergency.

remember, branko already surprised us with bakhtiarizadeh and alavi, he can do with more!

[Amir H F]

Yeah I dont expect any surprises...Mobali will for sure not be going as long as Branko is in charge. I just hope he takes Kazemian over Enayati or Khatibi.

[Hadi]

I just hope Mobali and Bagheri make it to the final list and ALAVI DOES NOT!

[Martin-Reza]

I do hope Rajabzadeh will be in though, otherwise the risk is high that I gotta be yashar_fasihnias donkey for one month...

http://www.persianfootball.com/forum...ghlight=donkey

[yashar_fasihnia]

I do hope Rajabzadeh will be in though, otherwise the risk is high that I gotta be yashar_fasihnias donkey for one month...
http://www.persianfootball.com/forum...ghlight=donkey

u do realize that rajabzadeh has a high chance now, only because jabbari is injured is 100% out and navidkia seems to be injured as well (even if he is not, has he reached enough fitness level to play for TM?) and mobali is not in the team, so there is only rajabzadeh and zandi left for playmaking positions and since zandi will most probably be playing LM, rajabzadeh will be the direct sub for karimi. luck seems to favour u right now, but still, there is a chance branko strikes off rajabzadeh and u change ur avatar

and kazemian hasnt been on peak form lately (except for the 2 goals he scored in the last friendly)

the chances for this bet to become a draw is kinda high now

[The-Red]

less than 24 hours left...
If Mobali is not selected at this point, I will seriously start thinking that Daie is involved somehow...I hope that we don't have to discuss that issue at all though.

[Paradigm]

Mobali is the one player we will need to have at hand if we are to have any chance against Portugal or even Mexico. I am sure Scolari (having already researched Iran) will be smiling if Branko excludes Mobali.

[Martin-Reza]

Really funny how much dreams are projected on one player. Suddenly Mobali is the answer to everything. Don't take it too far please.

[kasai]

Mobali is a great talent that has not played well for TM. I would say Samareh and Majidi fall in the same category. They have played well for their clubs, but have not set themselves apart for TM. Now, I do think all three have not gotten much of a shot with TM, but I don't think Branko will be experimenting at this time. I think Branko will use the majority of his roster on defensive types as that has been TM's weakness.

[The-Red]

Well Mr. Branko certainly takes advise from somewhere else! Mobali not in,.,,,
how funny is that...certain player gets into an argument with another certain player who is always a regular on the team, at least comes in as a sub in most of the games, then one player supposedly says the other certain player will never play for the national team again, and what do you know...!
I don't think justice was done here guys.

[yashar_fasihnia]

*surprise, surprise*

no navidkia!
sadeghi included!

time to end this discussion i suppose!

[The-Red]

*surprise, surprise*
no navidkia!
sadeghi included!
time to end this discussion i suppose!

no brother, somebody needs to explain to me why Mobali was not invited? wasn't he one of Branko's favorits just over a year ago? he was invited to the team by him for the first time if I am not mistaken 3 year ago, now in the past year and since the incident with Daie, all of a sudden he has been the "bad boy"!
Something is fishy here, I have no intention to bring up old discussion or certainly don't want to talk about an issue that we surely don't have any control over now, but it's amazing how things get done around teammelli and we expect to play world class football and surprise the world too!
I hope that we do.