GOAL - According to reports in Tehran, Iran star Mehrdad Oladi is not going to sign for La Liga club Deportivo Xerez.

The striker has been spending time with the newly-promoted club but coach Jose Angel Ziganda declared that the 24 year-old will not become the third Iranian to play in Spain’s top flight in the footsteps of Javad Nekounam and Masoud Shojaei.

The club are in the market for some new players but will now look elsewhere.

“I believe that Oladi will not come”, Ziganda said according to Tehran’s Mehr News Agency.

“We certainly need a striker, but the reason we haven’t hired one yet is because we couldn’t find a player that would fit our budget.”    
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