Benoît Fleury

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42 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market17 May 2027

Julio César López asks to leave Tours

“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.

Squad17 May 2027

Álex Domínguez 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.

Squad17 May 2027

Words at Tours training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matthieu Ezikian 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.

The dugout17 May 2027

The manager makes an example of Matthieu Ezikian

“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.

The dugout17 May 2027

When it matters, Antoine Chevalier plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market17 May 2027

The Emmanuel Robert question follows Tours around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Emmanuel Robert’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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31 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad1 Mar 2027

Álex Domínguez 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.

Squad1 Mar 2027

A row about effort at Tours

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

The dugout1 Mar 2027

Pierre Le Roux 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 dugout1 Mar 2027

When it matters, Benoît Dupont plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market1 Mar 2027

The Didier Leclerc story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Didier Leclerc signs something — a contract at Tours or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

The manager makes Babacar Diallo a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Tours. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

21 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Dec 2026

Whatever happens, Tours do not lose

13 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match21 Dec 2026

Tours up to position 3

37 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

Benoît Fleury: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tours have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at Tours

Álex Domínguez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match19 Dec 2026

Tours get the job done against Chamois Niortais

A 2‑0 win over Chamois Niortais, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Rémi Richard 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.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Sébastien Ménard was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Kévin Rocheteau did the work nobody counts — 7.06

10 combined actions and 7.06. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

Matthieu Ezikian 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.

In brief