The Tours Chronicle
Squad31 Aug 2026
The knee: Sébastien Cibois out for 22 days
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tours lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Aug 2026
Yann Poirier 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 The request is on a desk at Tours, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Tours
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tours are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tours lose Emmanuel Leclerc
59 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Tours
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Braga tell Tours: Tiago Sá is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Olivier Adam gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Olivier Adam
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Jean Da Silva was the difference for Tours
Marked 7.25. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Player ratings Joseph Martin beats them one at a time
- Squad Thibault Bonnet: “I am not a substitute”