From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Perugia.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
Player of the month: Simone Rabbi — 7.64
Everybody in the division was measured and a Ravenna man came out on top: 7.64 across the month and 2 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Market1 Oct 2028
Terms done: Luca Moro is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ospitaletto waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Perugia is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
Young player of the month: Cristian Carrara — 7.62
7.62 across the month and 4 goal contributions from a Perugia player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Oct 2028
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Guidonia Montecelio had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market1 Oct 2028
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 2028
“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 Oct 2028
3 assists across the month from a Ternana player marked 7.07. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
Gustavo Rigazzi is the division's best-marked player — 8.03
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. 8.03 across 2 matches for Gubbio.
Scoring charts1 Oct 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.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2028
2 goals in 2 appearances for Gubbio, 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 2028
3 in 4 for Carpi. 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 Sep 2028
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 1 goals in 1 appearances for Ravenna.
Market1 Sep 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bari waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Pontedera is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Sep 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 Gubbio, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 2028
Ascoli say no — this time
The offer from Maccabi Haifa for Federico Gattoni 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.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Nobody made more than Cristian Carrara this month
2 assists, 7.76, and a Perugia 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 2028
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Jean Galindo reports back to Pianese with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
1 goals in 1 appearances for Torres leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Matteo Stoppa up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Campobasso — 1 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
1 goals in 1 appearances for Perugia, 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 2028
A productive month at Campobasso — 1 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
Alfredo Bifulco keeps making them — 1 this month
7.33 for a Campobasso player whose contribution is measured entirely in other people's celebrations. The providers' chart is the one nobody frames and everybody in a dressing room reads.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2028
1 assists and counting for Matteo Motti
Marked 7.18 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 2028
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ravenna people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Aug 2028
“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 2028
“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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Market1 Jul 2028
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Avellino waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Arezzo is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Jul 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Arezzo can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jul 2028
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 Jun 2028
“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 Jun 2028
Liam Kerrigan has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ternana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Jun 2028
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Campobasso has been clear about where Matías Rodríguez stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Scoring charts1 May 2028
Gabriele Gori is the division’s leading scorer
4 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Ascoli have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Player of the month: Gabriele Gori — 8.07
Everybody in the division was measured and a Ascoli man came out on top: 8.07 across the month and 6 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Michele Barbella is the month's best young player — 7.24
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.24 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Bra player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 May 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 Arezzo, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Damián Pizarro leads the division for assists — 7.05
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Ascoli player marked 7.05, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 May 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ascoli they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
Best marks in the division for Gabriele Gori — 8.07
8.07 on average across 4 matches for Ascoli. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Market1 May 2028
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 2028
A productive month at Livorno — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 May 2028
2 in 4 for Ravenna. 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 2028
2 goals in 4 appearances for Ascoli, 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 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Guidonia Montecelio leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Simone Rabbi is the division’s leading scorer
3 goals in 3 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Ravenna have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Player of the month: Simone Rabbi — 8.06
Everybody in the division was measured and a Ravenna man came out on top: 8.06 across the month and 5 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Forli
Paul Mendy was marked 7.79 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.
Market1 Apr 2028
“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 Apr 2028
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lorenzo Lonardi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ravenna the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
Nobody made more than Enrico Oviszach this month
3 assists, 7.64, and a Ascoli 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 2028
Unai Gómez is the division's best-marked player — 8.17
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. 8.17 across 3 matches for Ascoli.
Market1 Apr 2028
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 Apr 2028
3 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 Apr 2028
2 in 3 for Arezzo. 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 2028
Unai Gómez up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Ascoli — 2 goals from 3 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Apr 2028
3 goals in 3 appearances for Forli, 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 Mar 2028
The month closes with Óscar Aranda out in front — 6 goals in 5 games, and Arezzo have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Marked 8.43 across it, 9 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Arezzo have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Arezzo
Matteo Palma was marked 6.94 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.
Market1 Mar 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Arezzo can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Mar 2028
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Ternana have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Mar 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Mar 2028
Malick Sylla has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Guidonia Montecelio they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Mar 2028
Nobody made more than Óscar Aranda this month
3 assists, 8.43, and a Arezzo 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 Mar 2028
3 in 5 for Sambenedettese. 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 2028
3 in 4 for Campobasso. 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 2028
5 goals in 5 appearances for Arezzo, 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 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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Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
The month closes with Óscar Aranda out in front — 5 goals in 6 games, and Arezzo have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Marked 8.22 across it, 8 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Arezzo have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Market1 Feb 2028
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ascoli people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market1 Feb 2028
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Alessio Nepi had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Guidonia Montecelio
Flynn Macnack was marked 7.39 and had a hand in 4 goals. Every recruitment department in the country now has a file open, and the club that has him knows exactly what that means.
Market1 Feb 2028
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ravenna can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2028
Ravenna say no — this time
The offer from Bari for Cristiano Bani 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.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
Nobody made more than Óscar Aranda this month
3 assists, 8.22, and a Arezzo 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 2028
4 in 6 for Ascoli. 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 2028
5 goals in 6 appearances for Arezzo leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2028
6 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 Feb 2028
3 in 6 for Guidonia Montecelio. 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 Jan 2028
Óscar Aranda is the division’s leading scorer
3 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Arezzo have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Player of the month: Óscar Aranda — 7.80
Everybody in the division was measured and a Arezzo man came out on top: 7.80 across the month and 5 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Guidonia Montecelio
Flynn Macnack was marked 7.18 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
“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 Jan 2028
Nicolò Bruschi leads the division for assists — 7.36
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Ravenna player marked 7.36, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Jan 2028
Only the photograph left for Joselito
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Joselito will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Perugia the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
Highest marks in the league belong to a Ternana man
N'dri Philippe Koffi averaged 7.95 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
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 Jan 2028
2 in 4 for Arezzo. 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 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.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
3 goals in 3 appearances for Ternana leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2028
3 goals in 4 appearances for Arezzo, 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 Dec 2027
Óscar Aranda is the division’s leading scorer
6 goals in 4 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Arezzo have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Óscar Aranda is the division's player of the month — 8.54
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 Arezzo man on 8.54 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Perugia
Cristian Carrara was marked 7.26 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 Dec 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ravenna is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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
Enrico Brignola leads the division for assists — 7.31
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Ternana player marked 7.31, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
Best marks in the division for Óscar Aranda — 8.54
8.54 on average across 4 matches for Arezzo. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
3 in 4 for Torres. 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 Dec 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.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2027
3 goals in 4 appearances for Gubbio, 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
3 appearances, 3 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Market1 Dec 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Carpi has been clear about where Leonardo Morosini stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Nicolò Lari tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Vis Pesaro.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Unai Gómez is the division's player of the month — 7.51
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 Ascoli man on 7.51 with 3 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Young player of the month: Paul Mendy — 7.19
7.19 across the month and 2 goal contributions from a Forli player everybody else in the division now has a file on. His price rose this month without anybody at his club lifting a finger.
Market1 Nov 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 Carpi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Nov 2027
Only the photograph left for Matteo Sorzi
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Matteo Sorzi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Carpi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Nobody made more than Enrico Brignola this month
2 assists, 7.28, and a Ternana 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 Nov 2027
Best marks in the division for Gianluca Di Chiara — 7.54
7.54 on average across 4 matches for Arezzo. The chart that notices the players a goal tally never does, and this month it noticed him.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
A productive month at Forli — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
2 goals in 3 appearances for Livorno, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
2 goals in 4 appearances for Arezzo leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2027
Unai Gómez up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Ascoli — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Market1 Nov 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Tommaso Milanese has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Ascoli.