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The Serie A Chronicle

1 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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Nobody scored more than Andrea Pinamonti

The month closes with Andrea Pinamonti out in front — 5 goals in 2 games, and Sassuolo have the division's most feared finisher.

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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Como

Nico Paz was marked 8.42 and had a hand in 3 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.

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Barcelona come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Inter did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

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The Bologna deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Federico Baschirotto reports back to Cremonese with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

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Nobody made more than Christian Pulisic this month

3 assists, 6.75, and a AC Milan 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.

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Oliver Sørensen asks to leave Parma

“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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Andrea Pinamonti is the division's best-marked player — 9.11

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. 9.11 across 2 matches for Sassuolo.

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David Neres 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 Napoli hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

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Santiago Castro makes the list

1 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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Thijs Dallinga up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Bologna — 2 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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Antonio Sanabria keeps the pressure on

3 goals in 2 appearances for Cremonese leave him among the month's leading marksmen.

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Nico Paz up among the month's scorers

A productive month at Como — 3 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.

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The Serie A Chronicle

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From our football correspondent Steady

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Federico Baschirotto 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 Cremonese can pretend not to have heard.

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Scott McTominay wants more than Napoli are offering

“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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Napoli may not be able to give David Neres what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. David Neres wants continental football; whether Napoli can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.