From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Serhou Guirassy is the division’s leading scorer
4 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Borussia Dortmund have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Rodrygo is the division's player of the month — 8.05
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a RB Leipzig man on 8.05 with 4 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for VfL Wolfsburg
Bence Dárdai was marked 7.52 and had a hand in 2 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Jan 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Werder Bremen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Ferran Torres leads the division for assists — 7.61
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a Bayern Munich player marked 7.61, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Bayern Munich man
Rafael Leão averaged 8.25 over 3 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Jan 2028
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bayer Leverkusen heard it as anything else.
Market1 Jan 2028
Zamora come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Eintracht Frankfurt did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Jan 2028
Anton Kade has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Werder Bremen can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Rodrygo keeps the pressure on
3 goals in 4 appearances for RB Leipzig leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Bayern Munich leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
The month closes with Serhou Guirassy out in front — 5 goals in 4 games, and Borussia Dortmund have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Serhou Guirassy is the division's player of the month — 8.67
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Borussia Dortmund man on 8.67 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for TSG Hoffenheim
Lennart Karl was marked 7.26 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Dec 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Nobody made more than Serhou Guirassy this month
2 assists, 8.67, and a Borussia Dortmund player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Market1 Dec 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market1 Dec 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Union Berlin can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
3 goals in 4 appearances for Bayern Munich, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Rômulo up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Eintracht Frankfurt — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
William Bøving up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Köln — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
3 goals in 2 appearances for TSG Hoffenheim, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
A place in the month's eleven for Kim Min-Jae
4 appearances at 7.30 for Bayern Munich, and a selection that says he was better than everybody else in the division doing his job. Nobody frames one of these and everybody remembers being in it.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 5 appearances for Bayer Leverkusen.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Player of the month: Moussa Diaby — 7.81
Everybody in the division was measured and a Bayer Leverkusen man came out on top: 7.81 across the month and 5 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Young player of the month: Lennart Karl — 7.28
7.28 across the month and 1 goal contributions from a TSG Hoffenheim player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
3 assists across the month from a VfB Stuttgart player marked 8.06. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 Nov 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what VfB Stuttgart can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Rodrygo is the division's best-marked player — 8.34
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.34 across 2 matches for RB Leipzig.
Market1 Nov 2027
Evanilson has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether SC Freiburg can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market1 Nov 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at VfB Stuttgart is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Nov 2027
Ibrahim Maza wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Bayer Leverkusen hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
3 in 5 for Hamburger SV. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
A productive month at Borussia Dortmund — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Tim Kleindienst is the division’s leading scorer
6 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Borussia Mönchengladbach have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Tim Kleindienst is the division's player of the month — 8.10
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Borussia Mönchengladbach man on 8.10 with 6 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Ibrahim Maza is the month's best young player — 7.18
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.18 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Bayer Leverkusen player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Oct 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Oct 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
The division’s top provider is José Manuel López — 8.00
3 assists across the month from a Mainz 05 player marked 8.00. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 Oct 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Borussia Dortmund is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a FC Augsburg man
Nediljko Labrović averaged 8.44 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
4 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
4 goals in 4 appearances for RB Leipzig, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
4 in 4 for Mainz 05. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
William Bøving is the division’s leading scorer
2 goals in 1 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Köln have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Market1 Sep 2027
The bid was some way short and Borussia Dortmund did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Sep 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hamburger SV, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around VfB Stuttgart people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Sep 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Borussia Mönchengladbach had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
The division’s top provider is Maximilian Beier — 8.23
2 assists across the month from a Borussia Dortmund player marked 8.23. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
Paulinho keeps the pressure on
2 goals in 1 appearances for Mainz 05 leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
1 appearances, 1 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
1 appearances, 1 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
1 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
Joakim Mæhle: 2 assists this month — 7.90
Next on a chart nobody frames. 7.90 for a VfL Wolfsburg player whose month is measured in other people's goals.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
1 assists and counting for Harry Kane
Marked 8.96 across the month. Somewhere in this division there are strikers whose goal tally belongs partly to him, and none of them will say so.
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Market1 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Augsburg, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Aug 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Borussia Dortmund have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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Market1 Jul 2027
Marco Grüll hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Werder Bremen can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jul 2027
The bid was some way short and Borussia Dortmund did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Eintracht Frankfurt people have started saying his name in the past tense.
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Steady
Market1 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Eintracht Frankfurt, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market1 Jun 2027
David Texeira has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around St. Pauli they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Evanilson tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 3 appearances for SC Freiburg.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Evanilson is the division's player of the month — 8.69
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a SC Freiburg man on 8.69 with 5 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Young player of the month: Elias Baum — 7.61
7.61 across the month and 1 goal contributions from a Hamburger SV player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
The division’s top provider is Yussuf Poulsen — 9.08
3 assists across the month from a Hamburger SV player marked 9.08. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 May 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Union Berlin, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Evanilson is the division's best-marked player — 8.69
The chart that catches everybody a goal tally never will: the centre-half who was immense for four weekends, the holding midfielder nobody outside his own ground has heard of. 8.69 across 3 matches for SC Freiburg.
Market1 May 2027
Igor Jesus has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether VfB Stuttgart can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Market1 May 2027
Jens Grahl has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Eintracht Frankfurt they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 May 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Rodrygo is right behind him
2 goals in 3 appearances for RB Leipzig, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
Igor Jesus up among the month's scorers
A productive month at VfB Stuttgart — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 May 2027
3 in 1 for Hamburger SV. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
Rafael Leão tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 2 appearances for Bayern Munich.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
Marked 7.81 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Bayern Munich have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for RB Leipzig
Antonio Nusa was marked 7.77 and had a hand in 1 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FC Augsburg can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
Nobody made more than Luis Díaz this month
4 assists, 8.31, and a Bayern Munich player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Bayern Munich man
Harry Kane averaged 8.47 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Market1 Apr 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bayer Leverkusen heard it as anything else.
Market1 Apr 2027
Odd come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Köln did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Apr 2027
Pavao Pervan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around VfL Wolfsburg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
4 in 3 for Bayern Munich. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
Evanilson up among the month's scorers
A productive month at SC Freiburg — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2027
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
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Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
Nobody scored more than Evanilson
The month closes with Evanilson out in front — 5 goals in 4 games, and SC Freiburg have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
Harry Kane is the division's player of the month — 8.22
A club's paper reports this as one of its own being honoured. On this page it is what it actually is: a verdict on everybody who played, and it went to a Bayern Munich man on 8.22 with 6 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for RB Leipzig
Antonio Nusa was marked 7.81 and had a hand in 5 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Mar 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
The division’s top provider is Patrik Schick — 8.22
3 assists across the month from a Bayer Leverkusen player marked 8.22. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Bayern Munich heard it as anything else.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Bayern Munich man
Harry Kane averaged 8.22 over 4 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
3 in 4 for Borussia Mönchengladbach. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
Patrik Schick up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Bayer Leverkusen — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2027
4 in 4 for Bayer Leverkusen. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
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Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
The month closes with Serhou Guirassy out in front — 6 goals in 5 games, and Borussia Dortmund have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Everybody in the division was measured and a Borussia Dortmund man came out on top: 8.62 across the month and 9 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Antonio Nusa is the month's best young player — 7.51
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.51 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a RB Leipzig player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer from Eintracht Frankfurt for Serhou Guirassy was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Feb 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Dženan Pejčinović had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market1 Feb 2027
Terms done: Luka Đurić is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and St. Pauli waiting with a shirt. Nobody at TSG Hoffenheim is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
4 assists, 7.84, and a Borussia Dortmund player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Harry Kane up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Bayern Munich — 6 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
3 goals in 4 appearances for Bayern Munich, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
6 in 5 for Borussia Dortmund. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2027
Kevin Schade up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Eintracht Frankfurt — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.