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Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Oier Luengo tops the scoring charts
Nobody in the division bettered it last month: 3 goals in 4 appearances for Burgos.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Marked 8.66 across it, 3 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Burgos have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2026
Marc Bernal is the month's best young player — 8.12
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.12 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Granada player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
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“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
Nobody made more than Álex Lizancos this month
3 assists, 7.58, and a Burgos 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 Oct 2026
Oier Luengo 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 4 matches for Burgos.
Market1 Oct 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 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 Gijón heard it as anything else.
Market1 Oct 2026
Kirian wants European nights
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 Oct 2026
3 goals in 4 appearances for Andorra, 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 2026
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 2026
3 goals in 4 appearances for Córdoba, 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 Sep 2026
The month closes with Ousmane Camara out in front — 3 goals in 2 games, and Castellón have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Aingeru Olabarrieta is the month's best young player — 8.90
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.90 over the month and 2 goal contributions, from a Andorra player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Sep 2026
Villarreal come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Racing Santander did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of 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 Ceuta, and it is not being withdrawn.
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Fernando Tapia leads the division for assists — 7.16
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Racing Santander player marked 7.16, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Market1 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: Werder Bremen have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Chupete. The answer from Málaga has not changed — yet.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Aingeru Olabarrieta is the division's best-marked player — 8.90
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. 8.90 across 2 matches for Andorra.
Market1 Sep 2026
Dani Parejo 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 Almería hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
Sergio Barcia up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Las Palmas — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2026
2 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 Sep 2026
2 goals in 2 appearances for Andorra, 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
Chupete keeps the pressure on
3 goals in 2 appearances for Málaga leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Market1 Aug 2026
Jon Balda 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 Real Sociedad B, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Aug 2026
Leo Román 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 Deportivo La Coruña hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market1 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Marcos André wants continental football; whether Valladolid can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.