Agha shoja aziz
This "tradition" of doing gharar va madar with players while under contract with other teams is very well rooted in Iranian football and goes back long time.
I have no doubt that Not only GN but most other coaches are guilty of this unprofessional behavior . But for some reason the blame has been one sided...For example, no one talks about how Nouri and feshangchi were a no show in their last game as saba players ,in a cup final gainst pespes, and magically showed up in pespes roster next year...
Even now you see players that are under contract with other teams , but get invited to practices of "big teams"......
Or the "practice" of havaii kardan bazikonan in mid season with promise of Porche and gheyre, making the players act unprofessionally towards the team that they are under contract ( pouladi /mes --Yaghob Karimi naft)...
Look what happened to yaghob karimi , a blooming star in the first half of season, after he had that infamous meeting with shirini in mid season break. Check his performance in the second half of the season....
We have and have had a very sick football culture that does not follow the ethical rules of football but is more likely to be governed by the norm that is practiced in bazar and streets. .
GN as a coach , just like many other has had a learning curve.....In his earlier years, since he appointed himself as noche of ali parvin,he followed the style with mafia bazi va kesafat kari as in undue influence...He still has some of it , but in a more subtle way... Other gholdor coaches/managers have their own style in luring players and making influences.... But is more fashionable to make scape goat of this lat and direct all the accusations towards him ...For some is delkhoshkoni . They don't know how to deal with their own team's short comings and miserey , so lets spoil and celebrate on the ruins of others.
If we really had an investigative type journalism in Iran, without any agenda, it would have been interesting to review the rosters of Taj/Pespes/Sepahan/......for the last 10 years and figure out how exactly most of these players ended up in the roster! Did all of them have merits to be part of big teams? Tj has had many questionable players in their roster, and there have been many mamanis
in pespes
Almost all coahes have their favorite players and carry them to any team they move to.....GN has few padoos like akbarpour, beikzade,Daei is forming his own groupie with ali asghar, va gheyre, pravin had several generations of players following his dampaii anywhere........But is hard to call this mafia baazi, unless someone has solid evidence that the coach is getting a cut of player's pay check ( which is very much possible in Iran-Rumors have already been spread about farhad kazemi doing so)....
Bottom line : we are dealing with a sick football culture..Practically there are many wrongs for every right step....The culture is so sick that even coaches that have had education and opportunity of playing in top of pro leagues in Europe have no choice but drawning in this culture.Ethics are not enforced , because if they are then every bit of this system is going to be questionable......
Kind of like the way society is governed.............
But as I said, our people love to find one single escape goat and blame zamin va zaman on him....................
It feels good to put a ja kesh like GN down, and escape reality momentarily.................