From our football correspondent
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Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
The month closes with Rilind Nivokazi out in front — 5 goals in 4 games, and Sion have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Marked 7.95 across it, 4 goals and assists between them, and no serious argument from anybody else in the division. Luzern have had the whole benefit of a month somebody else will spend the summer trying to buy.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
The division's brightest kid this month plays for Luzern
Herba Guirassy was marked 7.95 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 Oct 2027
Metinho 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 Basel can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Oct 2027
So close: Metinho’s move dies late
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Sion moved on, Metinho reports back to Basel, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market1 Oct 2027
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 2027
Marco Bürki has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Thun they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Maurice Malone leads the division for assists — 7.56
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 4 of them made by a Sion player marked 7.56, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Luzern man
Matteo di Giusto averaged 8.24 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.
Scoring charts1 Oct 2027
3 in 4 for Thun. 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 Oct 2027
2 in 4 for Grasshopper. 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 Oct 2027
3 goals in 4 appearances for Luzern leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
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Steady
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
The month closes with Ibrahim Salah out in front — 4 goals in 4 games, and Basel have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
Everybody in the division was measured and a Luzern man came out on top: 7.71 across the month and 6 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Market1 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and St. Gallen waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Thun is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
Young player of the month: Herba Guirassy — 7.71
7.71 across the month and 6 goal contributions from a Luzern 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 Sep 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 Sion, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Sep 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Kaio Eduardo had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
The division’s top provider is Nikolas Muci — 7.19
4 assists across the month from a Lugano player marked 7.19. Somebody has to open the door before anybody walks through it, and nobody in the league opened more.
Market1 Sep 2027
Sion come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lugano did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
Philip Otele is the division's best-marked player — 7.89
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. 7.89 across 4 matches for Basel.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
2 goals in 4 appearances for Sion, 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 2027
A productive month at Luzern — 2 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Sep 2027
Beckham Castro up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Lugano — 3 goals from 4 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Maurice Malone is the division’s leading scorer
3 goals in 2 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Sion have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Market1 Aug 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Basel have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Young player of the month: Junior Zé — 7.73
7.73 across the month and 3 goal contributions from a Basel 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 Aug 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Perth Glory had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market1 Aug 2027
Pascal Loretz 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 Luzern can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Aug 2027
Zurich come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Luzern did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Junior Zé leads the division for assists — 7.73
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 2 of them made by a Basel player marked 7.73, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Highest marks in the league belong to a Sion man
Maurice Malone averaged 8.66 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.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Philip Otele up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Basel — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
A productive month at Luzern — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Darian Maleš up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Sion — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Aug 2027
Beckham Castro up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Lugano — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
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Market1 Jul 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Metinho had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market1 Jul 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Thun waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Vaduz is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Jul 2027
Lukas Mai 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 Lugano can pretend not to have heard.
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Market1 Jun 2027
Metinho 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 Basel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Jun 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Basel heard it as anything else.
Market1 Jun 2027
Rogério has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Grasshopper can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
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Market1 May 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.
Market1 May 2027
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 May 2027
Pascal Loretz 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 Luzern hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
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Market1 Apr 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.
Market1 Apr 2027
Basel say no — this time
The offer from Breidablik for Giacomo Koloto 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 Apr 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sion is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
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Market1 Mar 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 St. Gallen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market1 Mar 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sion have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Helsingborg had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
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Market1 Feb 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Thun have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market1 Feb 2027
Metinho 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 Basel can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2027
Heidenheim come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Grasshopper did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
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Market1 Jan 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.
Market1 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market1 Jan 2027
No place for Metinho in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Metinho has his answer from Basel; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
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Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Kazeem Olaigbe is the division’s leading scorer
2 goals in 2 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Basel have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Young player of the month: Marvin Akahomen — 6.88
6.88 across the month and 0 goal contributions from a Basel 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 Dec 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 Young Boys, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
Nobody made more than Beckham Castro this month
2 assists, 7.49, and a Lugano 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 Dec 2026
Donat Rrudhani is the division's best-marked player — 8.22
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. 8.22 across 2 matches for Sion.
Market1 Dec 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.
Market1 Dec 2026
Grasshopper may not be able to give Rogério what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Rogério wants continental football; whether Grasshopper can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 in 2 for Luzern. 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 2026
Albian Ajeti up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Lugano — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Dec 2026
2 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 Dec 2026
2 goals in 2 appearances for Sion, 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 2026
Clément Michelin named among the month's best — 7.54
2 appearances at that mark for Sion. The team of the month is chosen against every player in the division who does his job, which makes it a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to dispute.
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Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Maurice Malone is the division’s leading scorer
4 goals in 5 games, and nobody else in the league close to it. Sion have the man every defence in the division is planning around.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Everybody in the division was measured and a Sion man came out on top: 7.60 across the month and 5 goal contributions. There is no serious case for anybody else.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Julien Duranville is the month's best young player — 7.62
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 7.62 over the month and 3 goal contributions, from a Basel player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Nov 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 St. Gallen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Sinan Karweina leads the division for assists — 7.76
The chart that decides who the scorers ought to be thanking. 3 of them made by a Luzern player marked 7.76, and not one will be in the montage at the end of the season.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Luzern man
Sinan Karweina averaged 7.76 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 Nov 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 Nov 2026
Samuel Essende up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Young Boys — 2 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
3 in 5 for Zurich. 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 2026
A productive month at Luzern — 2 goals from 5 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
2 goals in 5 appearances for Sion, and a chart that would look very different if two of them had gone in off the post instead of past it.
Market1 Nov 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Marvin Knoll has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Grasshopper.