TM-News-Vol. 5

[Iran_19]

Moghanlou will not be called up. Paykan are last in PGPL. The problem he faces in competition. He's joint top goalscorer with Alekasir. I'd say the best Iranian strikers in the league are Motahari, Alipour and Ghorbani. Even those three won't get called up.

Azmoun
Taremi
Rezaei
Ansarifard
Mehrdad Mohammadi
Sayyadmanesh
Shahab Zahedi
Payman Babaei

Not to say all of them are ahead, but they will be considered first before PGPL players, rightfully so.

Ghorbani lol
He is not even starter in Sepahan...

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[Leicester City]

Alipour and Motahari are both wasting their time in Iran, just straight up. None should really be invited to TM until they join Europe and quite honestly that most likely the only way they can make TM in their position due to the high volume of strikers.

Alipour: Already had legitimate offers this window from Paços de Ferreira in Portugal, a team players like Diogo Jota played for who now plays for Wolves. https://www.record.pt/futebol/futebo...orcar-o-ataque

Motahari: May have had European offers, but may not want paycut.

[perspolis#1]

Alipour and Motahari are both wasting their time in Iran, just straight up. None should really be invited to TM until they join Europe and quite honestly that most likely the only way they can make TM in their position due to the high volume of strikers.

Alipour: Already had legitimate offers this window from Paços de Ferreira in Portugal, a team players like Diogo Jota played for who now plays for Wolves. https://www.record.pt/futebol/futebo...orcar-o-ataque

Motahari: May have had European offers, but may not want paycut.

I think Alipour and Torabi are questionable in how they would handle a big move. They give me vibes they are very comfortable in Persepolis and Iran. This goes back to the days Alipour was on the Branko squad 4-5 years ago.

Maybe a move to Turkey or Russia if they can handle it

[PSGman#19]

Alipour and Motahari are both wasting their time in Iran, just straight up. None should really be invited to TM until they join Europe and quite honestly that most likely the only way they can make TM in their position due to the high volume of strikers.
Alipour: Already had legitimate offers this window from Paços de Ferreira in Portugal, a team players like Diogo Jota played for who now plays for Wolves. https://www.record.pt/futebol/futebo...orcar-o-ataque
Motahari: May have had European offers, but may not want paycut.

Some days ago on iran tv, Noorafkan confirmed zulte waregem were after Alipour last summer.
Him and torabi should stay away from TM until they become Legionnaire

[Gol Bezan]

Ghorbani lol
He is not even starter in Sepahan...

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Don't lol me you nerd. They have Shahbazzadeh and Kiros Stanlley, so the competition for the striker position is higher there than Paykan!

[Leicester City]

Some days ago on iran tv, Noorafkan confirmed zulte waregem were after Alipour last summer.
Him and torabi should stay away from TM until they become Legionnaire

I know bro, I posted the links in your 2019 Summer Transfer thread and it was an official offer too from Belgian media. Alipour didn't go, instead they got Canada's Cyle Larin.

The problem here is Alipour, Motahari, Rezaeian, Torabi, etc... are at European Football level, but at a European Football level where they would have to take a definite paycut if they want to feature in European Football. This is kind of the reason Beiranvand joined Royal Antwerp, for the OP wages they offer their players because they have a rich owner ever since they got promoted back to 1st divison football in Belgium. Also the reason they can have players like Mirallas, M'bokani, Hoedt (on a loan), and Defour: https://www.capology.com/club/royal-antwerp/salaries/

[inarsenewetrust]

I won't be surprised if Shahriar Moghanlou get an invitation to TM next camp, He finished as top scorer in league1 with Malavan and now is the top scorer in IPL, plus he is relatively young(25). He is the 2nd in the league for the number of the shots on target(61), after Hajsafi(62).




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I think it will be hard for him to ever get a callup to TM. Our striker position is really well stacked right now. Sardar, Kaveh, Taremi, Ansarifard , Mehrdad Mohammadi are definitely ahead of anybody in pgpl right now. I would say in PGPL Alipour and Motahari are ahead of this guy as well. Nevertheless interesting find.

Also, thank you for mentioning deris. I saw some of his highlights and he seems like a very solid GK, young with great physique. Maybe sometime in the future he could push a guy like Abedzadeh for the 3rd spot. I would beira and niaz have 1 and 2 down for the foreseeable future.

[aenima_8]

Interview with Skocic by Croatian media:

"My 'nonexistent', secret flight from Tehran was like a movie!

As of yesterday, nearly 41,500 coronavirus infection (7th in the world) and as many as 2,757 died were recorded in Iran. Fortunately, Iranian national team coach Dragan Skocic (51) is no longer in Tehran but in his hometown and is waiting for the epidemic to be brought under control.

Even though he is currently spending time with his family in Rijeka, relatively quiet compared to the coronavirus, he is still under the impression of a recent dramatic departure from Tehran.

It happened on March 11th. However, the story of Skocic's first contact with the coronavirus dates back to February when he flew from Moscow to Tehran. In Russia, at the time, Skocic ended his miniature tour of European clubs, visiting the Iranian national team.

- At the Moscow airport, for the first time, I saw movie scenes that made me creepy and really impressed me. Specifically, at 3 am, groups of Chinese passengers wearing face masks were lightly jostled at the airport, escorted by airport security. I was unprepared for such a situation and then I saw that the devil made a joke with that coronavirus - he began his story with Jump.

Two weeks in self-isolation

After arriving in Tehran, the menu was still calmer as it was housed in a national team camp.

- While in Tehran, I was in contact with up to four people, my associates. And the national team camp is really modern, well equipped, on the level of the camps of the biggest European clubs . We were practically isolated there, measuring our body temperature twice a day, everything was disinfected and I was safe.

His drama in Tehran only came about when he intended to leave the Iranian capital. Namely, all flights to Europe were filled and he suddenly found himself in a hopeless situation, until our ambassador to Iran, Dr. Drago Stambuk , a 69-year-old doctor, poet and experienced diplomat, came to help. Which, despite the galloping epidemic, still resides in Iran, as ambassador of the country holding the presidency of the Council of the European Union. Thus, our Embassy in Iran is currently the only European Union mission in that country.

- When I was already discouraged that I would not be able to catch a flight to Europe, around 7 pm they called me from the embassy and told me that I had a flight at five in the morning. I was surprised because I couldn't find that flight anywhere on the internet. As if he didn't exist, as in the movie.

I immediately headed to the airport because of all the controls you have to get on the flight at least five hours early. So, thanks to Dr. Stambuk, who delighted me with his humanity and professional approach, I caught a flight to Europe. It also traveled to diplomats fishing for the last flights from Tehran. If I hadn't boarded that plane, who knows when I would have left Iran at all - says Skocic.

Moharrami is no surprise

An interesting anecdote happened to him during the flight.

- It was a flight from Iran air to Frankfurt, during which I fell asleep and woke up when we landed. I got up to get off the plane when other passengers stopped me: "Where are you going, we're not in Frankfurt yet?".

Namely, because Iran air may not refuel anywhere due to Iran sanctions, we landed in Rimini. It is scary that politics directed against Iran and in these circumstances there is no mercy. In Rimini, I spent two hours in a stuffy plane on the runway, without ventilation, all masked, of course at great risk of picking up the virus.

Only after two hours did we resume our flight to Frankfurt. When I finally landed in Zagreb, I rented a car and went to Rijeka, where I spent two weeks in self-isolation in one apartment, separated from my immediate family. My wife and uncle brought me food, and the hardest part was that I couldn't hug my only nine-month-old daughter, Anna.

Thankfully, had no symptoms of coronavirus, so it has been with the family for the past week. - I brought from Iran a bunch of CDs with performances of the Iranian national team, although I have already watched thirty of its matches.

Have you seen the most recent performances by Moharrami's Dynamos?

- I saw his great performance in the derby with Hajduk. This did not surprise me at all, as Moharrami was my player in Iran's Malawi, where at the age of 17 I was included in the first team. Moharrami is a player of tremendous potential and has only one weakness; If he did, he would be a top defenseman. Yes, he is with me in the narrowest combinations for the first 11 Iranian national teams - concluded Skocic."

https://www.vecernji.hr/sport/moj-ne...-filma-1390702

[Sly]

Moharrami is a player of tremendous potential and has only one weakness; If he did, he would be a top defenseman.

I wonder what weakness he's talking about here.

[Gol Bezan]

I wonder what weakness he's talking about here.

It was the fact he gets caught up too high up the pitch sometimes.

[Iran_19]

Don't lol me you nerd. They have Shahbazzadeh and Kiros Stanlley, so the competition for the striker position is higher there than Paykan!

Shahbazzadeh loooool
If you mention Kiros then I give it to you but Shahbazzadeh??

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[Iran_19]

I think it will be hard for him to ever get a callup to TM. Our striker position is really well stacked right now. Sardar, Kaveh, Taremi, Ansarifard , Mehrdad Mohammadi are definitely ahead of anybody in pgpl right now. I would say in PGPL Alipour and Motahari are ahead of this guy as well. Nevertheless interesting find.

Also, thank you for mentioning deris. I saw some of his highlights and he seems like a very solid GK, young with great physique. Maybe sometime in the future he could push a guy like Abedzadeh for the 3rd spot. I would beira and niaz have 1 and 2 down for the foreseeable future.

No doubt the competition is quite high for forward position, but you have to at least invite the ones who shine in local league to have an eye on them, the way CQ did with his 35 list.
Guys like Motahari, Moghanlou, Ghaedi should be tested, probably one or two can eventually make the squad.

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[inarsenewetrust]

No doubt the competition is quite high for forward position, but you have to at least invite the ones who shine in local league to have an eye on them, the way CQ did with his 35 list.
Guys like Motahari, Moghanlou, Ghaedi should be tested, probably one or two can eventually make the squad.

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In my opinion, for domestic players to get invites at this stage, with so many legionairres who are performing at high level there should be more requirements than just some good form in PGPL.

1 - Consistency! Just having 1 or even 2 successful seasons is not by itself enough to warrant TM callup, especially in fwd,wing spots with so many players as we mentioned. Central midfield is possibly a different story, but still I have seen no PGPL players bar nourollahi who I would say is a lock for a spot in the list moving forward, who could break into our midfield. Maybe noorafkan down the line.

Remember, CQ had kind of a similar rule. He didnt invite alipour for a good while, finally invited him a bit towards the end and gave him some minutes, he didnt do much. Soon after his performances in league went down a lot too, and now it seems like he was just really hot for 12 months and has reverted back to a more standard alipour level.

2- They add a new dimension to team. IMO, just performing well for your club cant by itself warrant a TM callup bc it doesnt take into account what TM already has and what it needs. A guy like mehrdad mohammadi could actually fill a need for a physical, speedy, direct winger with good shot and set pieces, with totally different play style than gholi, ghoddos, taremi, ARJ, azmoun, Kaveh. I actually really like Motahari as somebody who could get a callup soon in the future, but I feel like he is too similar to what we already have.

3- They are just a massive talent, younger player, and we need to find a way of getting them oriented with squad bc they could be a huge weapon in the future. Main example here is Ghaedi and if he regains some form in the next season, Allahyar. They have shown in youth levels, enough matches that they are players that have a different level they can unlock and bring new qualities to TM.

just my opinion. A test/callup to TM should be when players have shown these factors, or we all really short in a position and need to try out all decent options (think cdm wc 2018, cq tried :Ali Karimi, Abdollahzadeh, Akbar Imani before eventually settling on somebody he had tried previously in actual WCQ matches, ebrahimi).

[M.U.F.C]

Do not like Beiranvand as our number one goalkeeper anymore. IMO he should be replaced with someone else like Niazmand, Hosseini, Mazaheri, etc. IMO Masoud Shojaei (Should have been retired right after WC 2018), Ramin Rezaeian, Karim Ansarifard, and Ehsan Hajsafi should be dropped from the team permanently.

[M.U.F.C]

I think it will be hard for him to ever get a callup to TM. Our striker position is really well stacked right now. Sardar, Kaveh, Taremi, Ansarifard , Mehrdad Mohammadi are definitely ahead of anybody in pgpl right now. I would say in PGPL Alipour and Motahari are ahead of this guy as well. Nevertheless interesting find.

Also, thank you for mentioning deris. I saw some of his highlights and he seems like a very solid GK, young with great physique. Maybe sometime in the future he could push a guy like Abedzadeh for the 3rd spot. I would beira and niaz have 1 and 2 down for the foreseeable future.

IMO Ansarifard should be dropped from the team. Should not be in the squad anymore. Azmoun, Taremi, Rezaei, and Motahari are all better than him.