Hajsafi officially recieves offer from Hull City and Fulham!!

[Afat11]

It's difficult not to be a pessimist when you support Iran. We haven't really had a lot of good times or things to hope for since 1979. Well, we beat the USA once and had a few players who bench warmed on Bayern, so we've got that going for us, which is nice.

As an Iranian, I know not to get my hopes up for anything ever. We will always be disappointed. We hear, every single year, "Mohamad Ghazi to AC Milan?" "Ando Teymourian to replace Xavi at Barcelona?" "Ansarifard to Liverpool?" "Jahanbakhsh to be manager/captain at Manchester United?"

Yet, after a decent World Cup appearance in comparison to some other teams in the tournament, teams like Oman have players in the top flight of England and other leagues and we don't. What planet is this?

Anyone that wants to be an optimist is a saint. After all of these Swansea, Hull City, Liverpool, etc. rumors and not even one player transferring to the top flight of any decent league, we have a right to be negative. I don't have to support a system that either doesn't build respectable talent or any system that by it's very existence commands no respect.

Nobody that matters in the world respects Iranian football. Ask Mourinho, Guardiola, or Van Gaal to name one current Iranian player or to discuss the Iranian national team. They think of us as on the same level as Saudi or UAE. They know they can't find any talent for their teams in Iran. So yes, don't get your hopes up for next years transfer window please. Just know every single rumor is a rumor, except 1. That seems to be the trend. 25 rumors, 1 actual transfer to a second division team.

[Nokhodi]

He at least tried and to be fair he didn't even play any games in the media. Maybe it will work out one day.

[Hosseini]

God, why are you guys so negative? If he didn't want to leave Iran, do you think he would've gone to Europe? It just didn't work out, and somethings in life are like that. Give him a break and atleast give him the credit for putting so much effort into wanting to make us happy and get this done.

[teammelli91]

^ If your auntie had a 8===D *

[Malkay]

His shot against Argentina was gunna be a screamer had it not been blocked for a corner.

If my auntie had a Ɛ═=D she would have been my uncle...

[Tiger_Irooni]

I disagree with Ashkan & Gucci. They were very inconsistent. They may had one game better than HS but over the 3 games they were both worse than HS. I wasn't thinking about our GK. I will say that Haghighi after Pooladi was our best:
Pooladi
Haghighi
Haj Safi

no ashkan and gucci and we would look more terrible in offence dude ! what you really wanted Gucci to do? dribble players and score ? lol
i guess you being biased because haj safi play for your club .

[babak_iran]

His shot against Argentina was gunna be a screamer had it not been blocked for a corner.

HAJSAFI was great at the World Cup and it's a shame he isn't at hull or fulham right now..

[persian-eagle-13]

i just hope he tried fish and chips while visiting the island LOL

[kia]

Haghighi, Ashkan, Gucci ,Sadeghi .
Haghighi was pretty solid , except probably one goal vs Bosnia
Ashkan even he wasn't 100 % but head and shoulder better than rest of our midfielders, some few menace in attack came from him
Gucci was decent , put always himself in right position with few chances created
Sadeghi had hell of tournament , very very solid in defense , no one even mention the guy
and yes hajsafi was decent too , but not better than these guys

I disagree with Ashkan & Gucci. They were very inconsistent. They may had one game better than HS but over the 3 games they were both worse than HS. I wasn't thinking about our GK. I will say that Haghighi after Pooladi was our best:
Pooladi
Haghighi
Haj Safi

[Tiger_Irooni]

Name us one player other than Pooladi that had a better tourney than HS.

Haghighi, Ashkan, Gucci ,Sadeghi .
Haghighi was pretty solid , except probably one goal vs Bosnia
Ashkan even he wasn't 100 % but head and shoulder better than rest of our midfielders, some few menace in attack came from him
Gucci was decent , put always himself in right position with few chances created
Sadeghi had hell of tournament , very very solid in defense , no one even mention the guy
and yes hajsafi was decent too , but not better than these guys

[O-ZoNe]

Name us one player other than Pooladi that had a better tourney than HS.

Alireza Haghighi and it landed him a first division Portugese contract. I would say after Haghighi in goal, and Pouladi, Hajsafi was our most consistent player. And that my friends, is we didn't succeed in going to R16 because our 3 best players had defensive mindsets.

[kia]

Name us one player other than Pooladi that had a better tourney than HS.

[BacheLot]

he had an okay wc!
lets put it this way if cq hadnt subbed him out in the 88th minute for the slow reza haghighi we would have tied with argentina. that 88 minutes that hajsafi was in he had messi wrapped around his finger! never gave him any space to run and or shoot! once he was subbed out messi scored a couple of minutes later... coincidence you might say?

[Tiger_Irooni]

Well, apparently he was close signing with Fulham but thanks to problems (probably Sarbazi and visa) it didn't went through. A damn shame that a player like Hajsafi is stuck in Iran..

he is not sarbaz , did his duty with tractor couple season a go !