Mr Taj, time to fire GN NOW!

[a_m]

Iran is the only country in the world that qualifies easily with a coach and then wants to sack him afterwards .
We definitely showed some weaknesses in defense — that's true. But do we have better defenders? What exactly do you expect? To play every match perfectly and not concede any goals?
Is that what's happening with South Korea, Japan, or Australia?
Where is this mentality coming from? Seriously, I want to understand...

GN succeeded in qualifying us with ease. Let him finish his job instead of getting emotional over two easily conceded goals.
This mentality is crazy. It could have happened with any coach in the world.

Please brother ,, UAE , Qatar , North Korea, Kyrgyzstan even Uzbekistan which is the strongest team we faced got beat by the USA 3-0 , these teams are not hard teams to beat at home or away ,…. We have the easier group out of the 3 , and no one said we have a problem qualifying,

it is at the World Cup that we struggle, you can’t compare the teams we going to play at the World Cup with these soft Asian teams we play against in Asia ,,,,

like if you watch carefully you see we make a lot defensive mistakes , but none of these Asian team can punish us , cause they don’t have the quality too ,,


But make these same mistake in the World Cup and you get punished right away ,

[Pluto2000]

Iran is the only country in the world that qualifies easily with a coach and then wants to sack him afterwards .
We definitely showed some weaknesses in defense — that's true. But do we have better defenders? What exactly do you expect? To play every match perfectly and not concede any goals?
Is that what's happening with South Korea, Japan, or Australia?
Where is this mentality coming from? Seriously, I want to understand...

GN succeeded in qualifying us with ease. Let him finish his job instead of getting emotional over two easily conceded goals.
This mentality is crazy. It could have happened with any coach in the world.

Let me clarify a few things. I see this type of comment a lot.

1. We do have at least 5 defenders ahead of Shoja.

2. Look at Ghalenoei's real stats: against teams ranked higher than 50, his stat is 2 wins, 6 ties, 1 loss.

Iran has conceded 24 goals in 20 games under him.

We have conceded against: Afghanistan, Kenya, Angola, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Hong Kong, and Burkina Faso.

One of his head tacticians biggest qualification is that he got a $400 online Barcelona certificate from a self paced course.

This team in group B or C would have been in danger of not qualifying directly. The warning signs are there....why not have a coach who actually has a football system instead of shit PGPL tactics?

Forget even the fact that he refuses to play people like Hosseinejad who would be an instant upgrade in midfield

[diz]

Iran is the only country in the world that qualifies easily with a coach and then wants to sack him afterwards .
We definitely showed some weaknesses in defense — that's true. But do we have better defenders? What exactly do you expect? To play every match perfectly and not concede any goals?
Is that what's happening with South Korea, Japan, or Australia?
Where is this mentality coming from? Seriously, I want to understand...

GN succeeded in qualifying us with ease. Let him finish his job instead of getting emotional over two easily conceded goals.
This mentality is crazy. It could have happened with any coach in the world.

As a TM fan for 25+ years, here’s the simple answer: Iran qualified because other Asian team are less talented, not because GN is a brilliant coach. He will be way over his head and his dahati tactics will be an embarrassment at the WC to you and me and any self-respecting Iranian. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

[maly3648]

Iran is the only country in the world that qualifies easily with a coach and then wants to sack him afterwards .
We definitely showed some weaknesses in defense — that's true. But do we have better defenders? What exactly do you expect? To play every match perfectly and not concede any goals?
Is that what's happening with South Korea, Japan, or Australia?
Where is this mentality coming from? Seriously, I want to understand...

GN succeeded in qualifying us with ease. Let him finish his job instead of getting emotional over two easily conceded goals.
This mentality is crazy. It could have happened with any coach in the world.

[a_m]

a_m jam I disagree with this sentiment. This type of thought is why our 2002 team failed despite having superstars.

Which part you disagree with ?

2002 team failed , they had a world class coach but mister Ali Daei was acting like a bully and he told Ivic who to play and not to play .

the players on that team drank got drunk and visited prostituties in Thailand , they lost easy points there ? In Bahrain they went drinking and were hangover the game against Bahrain !

Is that the coaches fault? We did not go to the WC 2002 cause we couldn’t even get past Bahrain in Tehran 0-0?? Is that the coach ?

this team is more talented than that team , those players in 2002 a lot of them had never even trained professionally until IVic took them to the Croatia camp …

the players now are way more professional in terms of everything, we have a lot of great players that a coach like GN can never find or dare invite , that is the bigger issue ,

just like how we had CQ come and throw the old guard out , and brought a whole new generation of players , we need that

[Kavian]

There is absolutely no ill intend when I say GN is NOT a world class coach. He does not have the knowledge, sophistication and demonstrated skills and ability to prove otherwise.

But, I understand that we are stuck with him since no real experienced coach is prepared to come to Iran and work under circumstances we all know about.

Let's just hope for the best.

[Nokhodi]

This TM even without a coach would have got the same results , 6 wins 2 ties 20 points

GN or any of his assistants coach’s played a factor in any of these results , all these results are purely off the individual talent of our players

We are lucky that Tean Melli is blessed with talented players , it is our talent that makes of one of the best times in Asian ,,,

look at Iraq look at Saudi , they have world class coach’s even UAE and they still struggle, but

eventually when we play against team that are equally as talents as us with their players that is where coaching really matters …

you saw it we are way strong that Uzbekistan but they played with a plan , and their had created a game plan , so even though we are better than they are , they got a decent result against us …

hard work trumps talent , all the time
but a fool with a plan will always beat a genius with no plan ….

GN is a fool and he has no plan so double negative for us right there …

a_m jam I disagree with this sentiment. This type of thought is why our 2002 team failed despite having superstars.

[a_m]

This TM even without a coach would have got the same results , 6 wins 2 ties 20 points

the two games were we could have actually seen GN coaching genius on display, he failed miserably which was against Uzbekistan both times ….


Neither GN or any of his assistants coaches played any factor in any of these results , all these results are purely off the individual talent of our players

We are lucky that Tean Melli is blessed with talented players , it is our talent that makes us one of the best times in Asia,,

look at Iraq look at Saudi , they have world class coach’s even UAE and they still struggle, but

eventually when we play against teams that are equally in talents to us with their players that is where coaching really matters …

you saw it we are way strong that Uzbekistan but they played with a plan , and their coach had created a game plan , so even though we are better than they are , they got a decent result against us …twice !!

hard work trumps talent , all the time

but a fool with a plan will always beat a genius with no plan ….

GN is a fool and he has no plan so double negative for us right there …

[Pluto2000]

I have a feeling shoja will not be invited next camp, or at least that he won’t start. Similar to his moghanlou was dropped

He will be back for the World Cup, this isn't our first rodeo with GN. He is gonna call up Moghanlou again very soon

[arj42]

I have a feeling shoja will not be invited next camp, or at least that he won’t start. Similar to his moghanlou was dropped

[PSGman#19]

I am not convinced that adding quality assistants to GN will solve the pb. GN act like a dictator and I don't see him getting influenced by an assistant. Manicone has an excellent resume but the defensive display and the squad/player selection is very poor. When GN make no sub until late while we are behind or outdated cliché sub like a tall olagh like Moghanlou to equalize against Qatar or sub out a striker for a defender to keep a result shows GN is the only one that decide

[koorosh]

Dear Mr. Taj... Your TM manager selection just got TM into the WC, with 2 games to go, with no defeats and without any complaints regarding poor facilities and no friendlies, with a cheap contract. Now it's time to listen up and fire him. Bring on a very expensive foreign coach because

[Pluto2000]

Kartal said that TM style of football will run into major issues at the World Cup.

Kartal for TM.

At this point anyone with an actual system and 3-4 professional assistants would be better

[Nokhodi]

Kartal said that TM style of football will run into major issues at the World Cup.

Kartal for TM.

[a_m]

1. Coach needed to be changed , we have 15 months time that is a lot of time

2. Shoja for 1 has to be dropped from the team all together and , maybe kanani also ezzat and JB are not good enough to be starters anymore

3. Iran need 8 friendly games , 2 against each continent ( Panama, Jamaica, Paraguay, Uruguay, Nigeria , Senegal , Belgium , Italy )

4. we need new players in defense and midfield

5. preparation starts ASAP

or else this will be our faith in WC26


please I am putting a disclaimer, this video is very upsetting;

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF0y1EROxyg/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==