According to Tasnim news agency and quoted from Khuzestan Steel Club website; Mehdi Hashemi Nasab said about the transfers of this club: We spent a very difficult half season. I have never seen these conditions in my life. Everything was against us, but thank God we reached good conditions in the last weeks of the half season. We are really grateful to the players, but we need to get better and better.
He added: As Mr. Nekonam said, we need to recruit players for the second half of the season. Foulad is going to fight in three cups. We are the only representative of Iran in the elimination stage of the Champions League. See what Asian teams spend. Al-Hilal and Al-Shabaab of Saudi Arabia, Al-Dhail of Qatar and Al-Ahli Al-Shabaab of the United Arab Emirates, which are at this stage, have spent a lot of money and are armed to the teeth. We definitely cannot spend as much as these teams, but at least we must eliminate our weaknesses. We have difficult games ahead of us in the league and the knockout cup.
Foulad coach continued: Look at our schedule at the beginning of the second half of the season. We play Sanat Naft, Persepolis, Traktor, Sepahan and Mes Rafsanjan, and every game is difficult. We must quickly compensate for the deficiencies. The technical staff is investigating and with the support of the club, God willing, we will have the necessary purchases
Hashemi Nasab pointed out: This year, before the start of the season, Foolad was put under pressure and they wrote that we have spent money. I dare to say right here that 5 top league teams have spent more than us. We prove this with evidence. At the end of the season, we can talk about this more easily. Our club endured the most pressure this year and they even said that it is Galactic Steel. No, we weren’t the Galaxy, it was the Galaxy of teams that spent huge numbers this year.
In recent days, there have been many rumors about the steel surplus list. Nekunam’s assistant stated: We are currently investigating. So far, we have recruited former Osasuna captain Torres and Saeed Vasei. We desperately need players in the attack line. You know that it is really difficult to get a player in mid-season transfers. Clubs keep what they have for the second half of the season and don’t let even their bench player go to other teams, because they say we shouldn’t let our rivals get strong, but we don’t think like that at Foolad.
The coach of Foulad continued: “We may have to make some changes in the list and some players will no longer be with us so that we can recruit new players.” Right now, our list has 4 vacancies, but as Mr. Nekonam said, we need 7-8 players. Definitely, if a player is not with us in the future, it is not a sign of his technical weakness, but we have to create a balance in different positions in this situation. All this depends on attracting new players. At the moment, we are actively looking for strikers.
In the end, Hashemi Nesab said: I would like to thank Mr. Ebrahimi, the manager of the Khuzestan Steel Factory, and Mr. Radkia, the CEO of the club, for supporting us. I hope we can attract the players we want with their support.”