From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Cruz Azul.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Óliver is the division's player of the month — 8.84
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 Monterrey man on 8.84 with 3 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Yael Padilla is the month's best young player — 7.98
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.98 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Dorados player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
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.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
5 assists, 7.24, and a Tijuana 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
Tigres say no — this time
The offer from Atlas for Marcelo Flores 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 Oct 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Monterrey man
Óliver averaged 8.84 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 Oct 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucas Ocampos wants continental football; whether Monterrey can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market1 Oct 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 Cruz Azul heard it as anything else.
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José Paradela up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Cruz Azul — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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2 goals in 4 appearances for Pumas UNAM leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Óliver is right behind him
3 goals in 4 appearances for Monterrey, 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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Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
The month closes with Erick Sánchez out in front — 3 goals in 5 games, and Club America have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Efraín Álvarez is the division's player of the month — 8.51
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 Guadalajara man on 8.51 with 5 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Bless Ege is the month's best young player — 7.59
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.59 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Queretaro player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 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 Santos Laguna, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 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 Sep 2026
So close: Carlos Moreno’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Ajax moved on, Carlos Moreno reports back to Pachuca, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Bryan González leads the division for assists — 8.08
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Guadalajara player marked 8.08, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Cristian Suárez is the division's best-marked player — 8.66
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. 8.66 across 2 matches for FC Nantes.
Market1 Sep 2026
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 Sep 2026
3 goals in 5 appearances for Guadalajara, 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
3 goals in 5 appearances for Guadalajara, 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
Still scoring: Óliver
3 in 5 for Monterrey. 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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 Pumas UNAM heard it as anything else.
Market1 Aug 2026
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.
Market1 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Club America has been clear about where Alejandro Zendejas stands, which is more than many ever get.