2015-16 IPL Top 20 Players To Watch Out For

[Ando Teymourian]

Fantastic post bro.

I like your top 20. If I had to think about it for some time, I think I would try to make room for Afshin Esmaelzadeh, Farshad Ahmadzadeh and Reza Shekari (not sure if he will play much though).


I tried to select my own top 5 from this list, but it was too hard. IMO Afshin, Rezaeian, Nourollahi, Sharifi, Ali Karimi, Rezaei, Torabi, Beiranvand, and Narimanjahan will all have great years.


Looking forward to the season, we have several strong teams. Reducing the teams in the league really showed the change in quality last year, and I think it will show even more so this year.

[AsOen5]

I thought you have no video from me this time^^ Ty for putting my Beiranvand video in, you could've also put the 1. Part which is from Matchday 1-9 I think.

[Zamboor]

The point is that some of these guys have been emerging since 17-18 and are now ready to impress. Kaveh is a perfect example of that....those 17-18 yr olds you're talking about are very rare and come around every few years (if that). Also in most Iranian clubs it is extremely rare for them to get playing time if they're under 20 years old.....look how long it took kaveh, mosalman, and sadeghian even though they were playing against some amazing competition who probably were getting playing time in their respective leagues. Didn't happen till they were 20.

I know man, Kaveh was on my rader along Sadeghian back then. If they would have been mentored right they would both be in Europe now. Cause back then they were bigger than everyone else.

[Ghermez Agha]

Some that I think should be added:
Reza Shakeri (Zob Ahan)
Milad Kamandani (Persepolis)
Reza Karmolachaab (Naft MIS, Azadegan League but we should definitely look out for him)
Mehdi Taremi (??? I think you just forgot to put him on the list because %10000 he should be on it)
Vahid Heyadrieh (Persepolis)
Farshad Ahmadzadeh (Persepolis)
Farshid Esmaeili (Esteghlal)
Goudarz Davoudi (He will have a great season with SS Khuz)
Issa Alekasir (Azadegan League top scorer last year and now at Naft)
Afshin Esmaeilzadeh (he was developing well under Daei but Derakhshan ruined him, he has a second chance at Paykan)
Mohammad Akhbari (TM Omid goalkeeper, Tractor will have a great goalkeeper this season with him)
Milad Sarlak (TM U20 captain, made his debut for Sepahan last season, he will play an important role in Sepahan's depth this season)
Bagher Niari (made his debut last season at the age of SIXTEEN, definetly will have a more important role with Saipa this season, hopefully he can breakout like Torabi)
Ahmad Abdollazadeh (one of CQ's favourite players, couldn't play much last season due to conscription but he is a great player, he will be one of the best midfielders of the league this season.

I considered a lot of those guys, especially abdollahzadeh, I think he will impress in tractor too now that he has no sarbazi issues to worry about.

I'm very interested to see heydaryeh play for persepolis.....seems like a young talent in a position that we desperately need help in so if he can do well that will be huge for the club. Taremi of course is aq beast and I think he will do well too, I just didn't include him because I'm not sure if this will be his break out season.

Fantastic post bro.
I like your top 20. If I had to think about it for some time, I think I would try to make room for Afshin Esmaelzadeh, Farshad Ahmadzadeh and Reza Shekari (not sure if he will play much though).
I tried to select my own top 5 from this list, but it was too hard. IMO Afshin, Rezaeian, Nourollahi, Sharifi, Ali Karimi, Rezaei, Torabi, Beiranvand, and Narimanjahan will all have great years.
Looking forward to the season, we have several strong teams. Reducing the teams in the league really showed the change in quality last year, and I think it will show even more so this year.

Thanks bro. I thought about including shakeri too but the reason you mentioned is the only reason I didn't include him....not sure how much playing time a 17 year old will get in Iran. That is extremely rare......we had a gem in kaveh who was scoring goals in the u17 WC meanwhile at foolad he wasn't given many opportunities under jalali.

I'm surprised both you and irani included esmaelizadeh.....I like the guy too he always played well in TM Omid games but he wasn't given opportunities to play in beira-mar or persepolis (under 3 different coaches) which to me says a little something. I hope he does well and again I like the guy myself, but I don't see how he could reasonably be compared to many other guys mentioned.

Agreed with the competitiveness of the league too.....I think this year with the amount of talent we have spread out throughout the league added with the quality foreign players being brought in will really make this one of the best IPL seasons we have seen. We'll see at the end of the season how competitive the title race is and how our ACL teams do which I have high hopes for both.

[Martin-Reza]

Great list. Barely can think of anyone missing except maybe Ehsan Pahlevan, Amin Hajmohammadi and Mehdi Taremi.

[Z Joon]

2015-16 IPL Top 20 Players To Watch Out For

No Milad Mohammadi?

Great list

[Ghermez Agha]

No Milad Mohammadi?

Great list

Thanks brother.....I wanted to include him but he still doesn't have a club if I'm not mistaken? I guess that doesn't matter much come to think of it which threw me off at first thought but anyway its hard to narrow it down when you got a lot of talented players like our league does. We both can name another 20 talents if we wanted to, for me it just came down to who's in the best situation to succeed (club, team mates, coach, form, etc.).

[Ghermez Agha]

Just a quick week 1 update on some of these guys:

- Sharifi, Alipour, Afshin all scored in week 1.

- bazray assisted the game winner of the game.

- beiro kept a clean sheet and had a good game all around.

- Alishah and nourollahi didn't play for some reason.

- Iman sadeghi had a fairly weak performance for PP....could've done better on both goals.

[irani8perspolis]

Just a quick week 1 update on some of these guys:

- Sharifi, Alipour, Afshin all scored in week 1.

- bazray assisted the game winner of the game.

- beiro kept a clean sheet and had a good game all around.

- Alishah and nourollahi didn't play for some reason.

- Iman sadeghi had a fairly weak performance for PP....could've done better on both goals.

Alishah is suspended and Nourollahi will miss the first 6 games with injury

[Ali Doust]

I wonder why their is no more talks about Bakhtiar Rahmani. You know the guy who Captained Foolad to a championship 2 seasons ago. The guy who was on the brinks of making TM starters. How come it seems like he has faded into the backgrounds. I think he proved to be a good general in the midfield. Like to see him find his form and make he's way into TM again.

[AIrani]

There are good players and there will be good players. The results boil down to hard work and discipline.

Kia is a good example to follow (minus his marriages, LOL). He played well for Team Melli, he only played in Germany and return to Iran, the homeland to create an academy.

I salute players who put their country and fans first.

[rugs]

Is Reza Shekari last name pronounced Sugary or hunter?

شکاری

[rugs]

Good thread, especially for those who like to year after year point out that we have no good players/talents in Iran, but then change their mind once a player transfers to Europe or impresses in TM.

Lol, I came to check on this thread just to see if I can find these mysterious people who hate the IPL that all you guys keep talking about.

But all I found was this post of yours...lol. So who are these people exactly? Or are you guys crying "Zionist" like mulllah with turrets?!

[irani8perspolis]

Kamandani impressed a lot

[Zamboor]

I think we should add Alireza Naghizadeh to the list