From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 3 appearances for Paris FC.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
The month belonged to Pavel Šulc
Marked 7.91 across it, 6 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Olympique Lyonnais have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
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The division's brightest kid this month plays for AJ Auxerre
Soriba Diaoune was marked 7.10 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 Oct 2026
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 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 Oct 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around FC Lorient people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Oct 2026
The Monaco deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Arthur Avom Ebong reports back to FC Lorient with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
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The division’s top provider is Riyad Mahrez — 7.57
3 assists across the month from a Monaco player marked 7.57. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
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Highest marks in the league belong to a Paris FC man
Leonardo Campana averaged 8.38 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.
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4 in 3 for Olympique Lyonnais. 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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3 goals in 3 appearances for Olympique de Marseille, 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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2 goals in 3 appearances for Stade Rennais leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Casper Tengstedt is the division’s leading scorer
4 goals in 2 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Toulouse FC have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Stade Rennais
Luca Koleosho was marked 7.21 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 Sep 2026
The offer from LOSC Lille for Amine Gouiri 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 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and RC Lens waiting with a shirt. Nobody at LOSC Lille is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
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“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.
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Nobody made more than Aron Dønnum this month
2 assists, 7.61, and a Toulouse FC 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 Sep 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.
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Casper Tengstedt is the division's best-marked player — 8.35
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. 8.35 across 2 matches for Toulouse FC.
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Yann Gboho up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Toulouse FC — 1 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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2 goals in 2 appearances for AJ Auxerre, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
2 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 2026
2 appearances, 2 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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 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 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Alexsandro Ribeiro wants continental football; whether LOSC Lille can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.