Quentin Lamy

Goalkeeper - Tours U20
30 Sep 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Quentin Lamy

162 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Luc Faure says no to KV Kortrijk

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Luc Faure had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Player ratings

Vintage Joseph Julien — 7.93

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.93, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Abdelsamad Hachem attracts admirers

The name of Abdelsamad Hachem has come up in conversations Tours were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Boardroom

Tours close the window on a squad of their own making

18 in and 18 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Thomas Vannoye has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tours they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Daniel Carré wants more than Tours are offering

“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.

Boardroom

Quentin Lamy has agreed to leave Tours for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Tours

Daniel Carré was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

Lamine Guèye runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The Tours Chronicle

25 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tours turn down Vizela for Luc Faure

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Thomas Vannoye 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 Tours, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for El Mehdi Karnass

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. El Mehdi Karnass will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tours the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Yoann Chauvin is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Abu Kamara 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 Tours can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Tours

Abu Kamara was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Tours

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Carré was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Tours rebuffed over Alessandro Longoni

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Paris Saint-Germain have kept their man, and Tours go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Tours lose Quentin Lamy

28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief