From our football correspondent
Steady
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Mao Hosoya tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Lokomotiv Moscow.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Marked 7.74 across it, 2 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Spartak Moscow have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
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The division's brightest kid this month plays for Lokomotiv Moscow
Sergey Pinyaev was marked 7.92 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 Oct 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 The request is on a desk at CSKA Moscow, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Oct 2026
CSKA Moscow come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Orenburg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
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Nobody made more than Pablo Solari this month
3 assists, 7.70, and a Spartak Moscow 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
So close: Ismael’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Dinamo Moscow moved on, Ismael reports back to Akhmat, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
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Highest marks in the league belong to a Rostov man
Victor Melekhin averaged 8.77 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.
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Nino raises the bar for Zenit
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Zenit heard it as anything else.
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Nino keeps the pressure on
2 goals in 4 appearances for Zenit leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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2 goals in 4 appearances for Lokomotiv Moscow leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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A productive month at Rostov — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 5 appearances for Krasnodar.
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The month belonged to Jhon Jhon
Marked 8.51 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Zenit have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
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Sergey Pinyaev is the month's best young player — 7.90
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.90 over the month and 4 goal contributions, from a Lokomotiv Moscow player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Krylya Sovetov can pretend not to have heard.
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.
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Nobody made more than Yury Dyupin this month
5 assists, 6.88, and a Sochi 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 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Krylya Sovetov have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
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Highest marks in the league belong to a Zenit man
Jhon Jhon averaged 8.51 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.
Market1 Sep 2026
“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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3 goals in 4 appearances for Krylya Sovetov leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Batxi makes the list
5 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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A productive month at Rostov — 3 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Aug 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 Orenburg, and it is not being withdrawn.
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 Zenit heard it as anything else.
Market1 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Luciano Gondou wants continental football; whether CSKA Moscow can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.