From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
The month closes with Dominik Pech out in front — 7 goals in 4 games, and Stade Lavallois have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
Dominik Pech is the division's player of the month — 9.42
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 Stade Lavallois man on 9.42 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
Pierre Renault is the month's best young player — 6.64
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.64 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Sochaux player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 2038
Ilan Pain puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Red Star, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 2038
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 Sep 2038
Andy Pembélé leads the division for assists — 7.88
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Bourg-Peronnas player marked 7.88, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Sep 2038
Only the photograph left for Ylan Aka
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ylan Aka will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
Highest marks in the league belong to a Stade Lavallois man
Dominik Pech averaged 9.42 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.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2038
3 in 4 for AC Ajaccio. 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 Sep 2038
3 goals in 4 appearances for AC Ajaccio, 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 2038
5 goals in 4 appearances for AS Nancy, 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 2038
Ismaël Sylla up among the month's scorers
A productive month at AS Nancy — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
The month closes with Murray Campbell out in front — 4 goals in 1 games, and Nimes have the division's most feared finisher.
Market1 Aug 2038
“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 Bourg-Peronnas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Aug 2038
Tours come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Red Star did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market1 Aug 2038
Rafal Kaminski has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dijon they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
Aboubacar Sidibé leads the division for assists — 8.85
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Nimes player marked 8.85, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Aug 2038
Alexis Ntamack 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 Dijon hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
1 goals in 1 appearances for Valenciennes, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
2 goals in 1 appearances for Nimes, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
1 appearances, 1 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
1 goals in 1 appearances for Clermont Foot, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
Facundo Núñez: 2 assists this month — 10.00
Next on a chart nobody frames. 10.00 for a Valenciennes player whose month is measured in other people's goals.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2038
Lenny Pley keeps making them — 1 this month
8.85 for a Clermont Foot 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.
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Steady
Market1 Jul 2038
Tiago Deanes 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 Valenciennes can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jul 2038
The offer from Stade Brestois for Mohamed Sylla 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 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AS Nancy is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Steady
Market1 Jun 2038
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bourg-Peronnas can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Jun 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Stade Lavallois is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Jun 2038
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Facundo Núñez wants continental football; whether Valenciennes can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 May 2038
Ertan Tombak 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 US Creteil can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 May 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bourg-Peronnas is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 May 2038
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Apr 2038
“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 2038
Ylan Aka has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dijon they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market1 Apr 2038
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Mar 2038
“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 Bourg-Peronnas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Mar 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AC Ajaccio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market1 Mar 2038
The deal that would have taken François Duval to Red Star has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to AC Ajaccio with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
The month closes with Lewis Campbell out in front — 4 goals in 3 games, and AC Ajaccio have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
Kévin Danois is the division's player of the month — 8.88
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 AJ Auxerre man on 8.88 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
Georg Winter is the month's best young player — 6.68
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.68 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a US Creteil player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Feb 2038
“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 Bourg-Peronnas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Feb 2038
The offer from Stade Lavallois for Lewis Campbell 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 2038
Nobody made more than Kévin Danois this month
6 assists, 8.88, and a AJ Auxerre 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 2038
Highest marks in the league belong to a Paris FC man
Obed Nkambadio averaged 9.04 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 Feb 2038
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Facundo Núñez wants continental football; whether Valenciennes can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Market1 Feb 2038
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Paris FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
3 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 2038
3 goals in 3 appearances for Tours leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Feb 2038
A productive month at AJ Auxerre — 3 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 7 goals in 4 appearances for US Creteil.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Marked 9.31 across it, 8 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Tours have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Georg Winter is the month's best young player — 6.24
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.24 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a US Creteil player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Jan 2038
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bourg-Peronnas can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Nobody made more than Aboubacar Sidibé this month
4 assists, 8.03, and a Nimes 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 2038
“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 Jan 2038
Highest marks in the league belong to a Tours man
Frédéric Marchand averaged 9.31 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 Jan 2038
Only the photograph left for Rareş Gal
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rareş Gal will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tours the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Jan 2038
Universitario are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. AJ Auxerre will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
3 goals in 3 appearances for AS Nancy, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
5 goals in 3 appearances for AS Nancy, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Scoring charts1 Jan 2038
Rémy Dumas up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Tours — 5 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
The month closes with Julien Vetro out in front — 7 goals in 4 games, and Sochaux have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Julien Vetro is the division's player of the month — 9.26
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 Sochaux man on 9.26 with 7 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Daniel Rivière is the month's best young player — 5.89
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 5.89 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a Sochaux player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Dec 2037
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bourg-Peronnas can pretend not to have heard.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Milán Szekszárdi leads the division for assists — 6.69
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 5 of them made by a AC Ajaccio player marked 6.69, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Dec 2037
Marian Bats has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nimes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
Highest marks in the league belong to a Sochaux man
Julien Vetro averaged 9.26 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.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
4 goals in 4 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 Dec 2037
4 goals in 4 appearances for AS Nancy leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2037
5 in 4 for Paris FC. 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 2037
4 in 4 for Dijon. 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 2037
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kévin Danois’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 6 goals in 5 appearances for Tours.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
Julien Vetro is the division's player of the month — 8.72
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 Sochaux man on 8.72 with 5 goal contributions.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Valenciennes
Jean Rodriguez was marked 6.18 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 Nov 2037
“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 Nov 2037
Nobody made more than Mousa Vanaken this month
5 assists, 8.09, and a Bourg-Peronnas 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 2037
Only the photograph left for Ihlane Ali
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ihlane Ali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Clermont Foot the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market1 Nov 2037
Lassine Sinayoko 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 AJ Auxerre hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
Highest marks in the league belong to a Valenciennes man
Aleksa Petrović averaged 9.00 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 Nov 2037
5 in 5 for Sochaux. 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 Nov 2037
Mohamed Sylla up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Bourg-Peronnas — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2037
5 goals in 4 appearances for Dijon, 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 2037
4 goals in 4 appearances for Clermont Foot leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
The month closes with Dominique Leroy out in front — 6 goals in 4 games, and Tours have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Marked 8.70 across it, 5 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Dijon have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Georg Winter is the month's best young player — 6.24
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 6.24 over the month and 0 goal contributions, from a US Creteil player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Oct 2037
Rich Sackey 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 AC Ajaccio can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Oct 2037
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AC Ajaccio is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Diego Pisani leads the division for assists — 8.98
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Sochaux player marked 8.98, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
Highest marks in the league belong to a Sochaux man
Diego Pisani averaged 8.98 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 Oct 2037
Sinaly Diomandé 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 AJ Auxerre hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Oct 2037
The deal that would have taken Tom Norcott to Sochaux has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to AC Ajaccio with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
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 Oct 2037
Ihlane Ali up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Clermont Foot — 4 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2037
4 appearances, 5 goals, and a place among the division's leading scorers for the month. Strikers measure a season in exactly these lines.