Icaro Mendes

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Tours
17 Jan 2036
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Marked for Icaro Mendes

489 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

10 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings10 Dec 2035

Remy Rees-Dottin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad10 Dec 2035

Kenneth Brobbey damages knee ligaments — 88 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 88 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market10 Dec 2035

Christ Dégnan Konan 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 Tours can pretend not to have heard.

Market10 Dec 2035

Christ Dégnan Konan 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.

Squad10 Dec 2035

Yann Roussel in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tours this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match8 Dec 2035

RC Lens take the points off Tours

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad10 Dec 2035

Christ Dégnan Konan falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad10 Dec 2035

Icaro Mendes wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Tours know it.

Market10 Dec 2035

The clock does Julien Trichet’s negotiating for him

6 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Tours could ask drops and the wages Julien Trichet can ask rise.

In brief

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478 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

24 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match19 Sep 2035

Tours bow out of the cup

Monaco go through and Tours go home, 0‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

The terraces24 Sep 2035

Tours are taken apart by Monaco — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Market24 Sep 2035

Lukas Ahrend 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 Tours can pretend not to have heard.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Tempers go at Tours

Richard Laine 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.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Words at Tours training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tidiane Devernois is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad24 Sep 2035

No hiding place for Rémy Pierre

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rémy Pierre, and the manager let it.

Boardroom24 Sep 2035

Inquest at Tours

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Icaro Mendes wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Tours know it.

Player ratings24 Sep 2035

Nobody could get near Nikola Jovanović

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

470 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

30 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings30 Jul 2035

Nobody could get near Jérôme Rodriguez

Successful dribbles: 45. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market30 Jul 2035

César Obongo 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.

Player ratings30 Jul 2035

Marc Roussel, 36, rolls back the years — 8.05

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.05 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market30 Jul 2035

Only the photograph left for César Obongo

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

Match28 Jul 2035

The wait goes on for Tours

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad30 Jul 2035

Yann Roussel in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Tours this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad30 Jul 2035

Tidiane Devernois falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad30 Jul 2035

The manager makes an example of Ange N'Guessan

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad30 Jul 2035

Home is on Icaro Mendes's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tours are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief