From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2040
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 6 goals in 4 appearances for Padova.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2040
Marked 8.37 across it, 9 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Padova have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2040
Marco Strootman is the month's best young player — 7.25
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.25 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Catanzaro player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Dec 2040
Berk Beyhan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Padova they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2040
Jonathan Rowe leads the division for assists — 7.56
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Bologna player marked 7.56, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Dec 2040
“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 The request is on a desk at Carrarese, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2040
Arturo Baraldi is the division's best-marked player — 8.37
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. 8.37 across 4 matches for Padova.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2040
4 goals in 4 appearances for Torino leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2040
5 goals in 4 appearances for Empoli leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2040
4 goals in 4 appearances for Padova, 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 2040
4 in 4 for Bari. 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.
Market1 Dec 2040
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Joseph Pearson has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sampdoria.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2040
The month closes with Tommaso Ghirardello out in front — 5 goals in 4 games, and Lecce have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2040
Marked 8.08 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Empoli have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2040
Alessandro Mazza is the month's best young player — 6.99
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.99 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Carrarese player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Nov 2040
“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 Cesena, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2040
Nobody made more than Luigi Cherubini this month
4 assists, 7.30, and a Sampdoria 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 Nov 2040
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Nov 2040
“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 Nov 2040
Tommaso Gabellini is the division's best-marked player — 8.08
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. 8.08 across 4 matches for Empoli.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2040
Adulai Embaló up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Venezia — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2040
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2040
4 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2040
4 appearances, 4 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
Scoring charts1 Oct 2040
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 8 goals in 5 appearances for Lecce.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2040
Christian Stefani is the division's player of the month — 7.90
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 Südtirol man on 7.90 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2040
Leonardo Rossetti is the month's best young player — 7.34
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.34 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Empoli player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Oct 2040
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sampdoria can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2040
Nobody made more than Iván Azón this month
3 assists, 7.44, and a Hellas Verona 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 2040
Massimo Guerra has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Cesena they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Oct 2040
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Venezia heard it as anything else.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2040
Highest marks in the league belong to a Hellas Verona man
Gerardo Díaz averaged 8.09 over 5 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 2040
4 goals in 5 appearances for Bologna, 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 2040
A productive month at Südtirol — 5 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2040
5 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2040
5 goals in 5 appearances for Pescara leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Sep 2040
Cesena say no — this time
The offer from Astana for Massimo Guerra 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 2040
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Torino can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Sep 2040
Only the photograph left for Kyrylo Siheiev
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Kyrylo Siheiev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Torino the goodbyes have quietly begun.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Aug 2040
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Padova is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Aug 2040
“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 2040
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jul 2040
“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 Jul 2040
Pescara say no — this time
The offer from Cracovia for Riccardo Conte 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 Jul 2040
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hellas Verona is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jun 2040
The month closes with Elia Cattaneo out in front — 5 goals in 2 games, and Serie B have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2040
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Juve Stabia
Edoardo Rizzo was marked 7.62 and had a hand in 0 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Jun 2040
“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 Jun 2040
Nobody made more than Tommaso Rocca this month
2 assists, 7.87, and a Juve Stabia 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 Jun 2040
Only the photograph left for Franco Medici
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Franco Medici will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sampdoria the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2040
Elia Cattaneo averaged 8.94 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 Jun 2040
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Torino heard it as anything else.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2040
2 in 2 for Empoli. 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 Jun 2040
2 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 Jun 2040
2 goals in 2 appearances for Südtirol leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2040
3 goals in 2 appearances for Pescara, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Jun 2040
Matías Moreno named among the month's best — 8.13
2 appearances at that mark for Pescara. The team of the month is chosen against every player in the division who does his job, which makes it a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to dispute.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 May 2040
The month closes with Jacopo Antonucci out in front — 6 goals in 4 games, and Juve Stabia have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 May 2040
Jacopo Antonucci is the division's player of the month — 8.24
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 Juve Stabia man on 8.24 with 6 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 May 2040
Alessandro Grassi is the month's best young player — 7.58
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.58 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Padova player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 May 2040
“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 May 2040
Jason Thompson has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Carrarese they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 May 2040
Nobody made more than Agustín Álvarez this month
3 assists, 6.72, and a Sassuolo 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 May 2040
Jacopo Antonucci is the division's best-marked player — 8.24
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. 8.24 across 4 matches for Juve Stabia.
Market1 May 2040
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 May 2040
4 in 4 for Lecce. 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 May 2040
4 goals in 4 appearances for Südtirol leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 May 2040
4 in 4 for Pescara. 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 May 2040
A productive month at Spezia — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Apr 2040
The month closes with Elia Cattaneo out in front — 6 goals in 4 games, and Südtirol have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2040
Elia Cattaneo is the division's player of the month — 8.87
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 Südtirol man on 8.87 with 9 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2040
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Mantova
Edoardo Rizzo was marked 7.72 and had a hand in 0 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 2040
“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 Südtirol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2040
Solomon Loubao leads the division for assists — 7.53
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a Monza player marked 7.53, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Apr 2040
Andrea Luongo has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Torino they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Apr 2040
“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 Apr 2040
Highest marks in the league belong to a Südtirol man
Elia Cattaneo averaged 8.87 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.
Market1 Apr 2040
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2040
5 goals in 5 appearances for Monza leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2040
4 in 5 for Juve Stabia. 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 2040
5 goals in 5 appearances for Monza, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Mar 2040
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 5 goals in 3 appearances for Juve Stabia.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2040
Marked 8.16 across it, 6 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Cremonese have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2040
Piotr Piszczek is the month's best young player — 8.03
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.03 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Padova player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Mar 2040
“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 Monza, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Mar 2040
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 2040
Nobody made more than Riccardo Pagano this month
3 assists, 7.07, and a Bari 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 Mar 2040
Denzel is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Spezia is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Mar 2040
Juan Miranda 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 Bologna hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2040
Highest marks in the league belong to a Juve Stabia man
Jacopo Antonucci averaged 8.53 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.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2040
4 goals in 4 appearances for Sampdoria, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2040
5 goals in 4 appearances for Cremonese leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2040
4 goals in 4 appearances for Empoli leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Feb 2040
The month closes with Ignacio Esteban out in front — 6 goals in 4 games, and Bari have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2040
Marked 8.60 across it, 7 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Bari have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2040
Edoardo Rizzo is the month's best young player — 7.12
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.12 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Mantova player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Feb 2040
“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 2040
The offer from Athletic Bilbao for Jacopo Antonucci 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 2040
Ted Cann has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Catanzaro they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2040
Nobody made more than Jacopo Antonucci this month
4 assists, 7.48, and a Juve Stabia 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 2040
Ignacio Esteban is the division's best-marked player — 8.60
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. 8.60 across 4 matches for Bari.
Market1 Feb 2040
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Juve Stabia will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2040
4 goals in 3 appearances for Reggiana, 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 2040
4 appearances, 5 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2040
A productive month at Sassuolo — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2040
The month closes with Tommaso Gabellini out in front — 7 goals in 5 games, and Empoli have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2040
Marked 8.54 across it, 9 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Empoli have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2040
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Spezia
Diego Pellegrini was marked 7.55 and had a hand in 0 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2040
Nobody made more than Luigi Cherubini this month
3 assists, 7.49, and a Sampdoria 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 Jan 2040
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sampdoria can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jan 2040
“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 Jan 2040
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Modena is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2040
Highest marks in the league belong to a Empoli man
Tommaso Gabellini averaged 8.54 over 5 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 Jan 2040
A productive month at Empoli — 6 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2040
5 appearances, 6 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2040
5 appearances, 4 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2040
6 goals in 5 appearances for Pescara, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.