From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 4 goals in 4 appearances for Birmingham.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Marked 8.11 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Birmingham have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Facundo Buonanotte is the month's best young player — 8.30
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.30 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Leeds United player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Oct 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Charlton Athletic, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Oct 2026
The offer from Derby County for Dylan Lawlor 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.
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Nobody made more than James Beadle this month
5 assists, 7.22, and a Birmingham 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 Oct 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Leeds United moved on, David Turnbull reports back to Cardiff City, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Fulham man
Emile Smith Rowe averaged 8.68 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 Oct 2026
“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.
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A productive month at Fulham — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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3 in 3 for Bristol City. 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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2 goals in 3 appearances for Leeds United, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
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Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nobody scored more than Max Alleyne
The month closes with Max Alleyne out in front — 3 goals in 3 games, and Rotherham United have the division's most feared finisher.
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Max Alleyne is the division's player of the month — 8.43
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 Rotherham United man on 8.43 with 3 goal contributions.
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Max Alleyne is the month's best young player — 8.43
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.43 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Rotherham United player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 2026
The offer from Atlético Madrid for Dominic Calvert-Lewin 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.
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Steve Cook 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 Queens Park Rangers can pretend not to have heard.
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Lino Sousa leads the division for assists — 7.75
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Rotherham United player marked 7.75, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Sep 2026
The name of Harrison Reed has come up in conversations Preston were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Jhon Solís is the division's best-marked player — 9.29
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. 9.29 across 2 matches for Birmingham.
Market1 Sep 2026
Dani Parejo 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 Fulham hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
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2 goals in 3 appearances for Bristol City leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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2 appearances, 2 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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A productive month at Bolton Wanderers — 3 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Market1 Aug 2026
“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 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Fulham heard it as anything else.
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Jimmy Dunne is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Queens Park Rangers has been clear about where Jimmy Dunne stands, which is more than many ever get.