The Tours Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Édouard Dupuy turns Ilves down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market10 Aug 2026
JS Saoura join the queue for Olivier Adam
Add another name to the list: JS Saoura have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Olivier Adam. The answer from Tours has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yves Deschamps signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yves Deschamps commits to Tours for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Tours
Yves Deschamps and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $110.0K for Raphaël Le Guen
Tours have gone to Stade Brestois with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tours count the cost of losing Jean Dumas
46 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tours and Stefan Bajić are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Benjamin Santelli in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tours are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Yves Deschamps knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Yves Deschamps trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Market No place for Emmanuel Bernard in the plan
- The dugout No hiding place for Emmanuel Bernard
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: US Creteil at home