The Tours Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
Yves Deschamps 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Sampdoria come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tours did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Tours go back to the board over Bissenty Gomis
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $529.0K — a club that wants Bissenty Gomis enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No deal for Bissenty Gomis at that price
Tours offered $490.0K; Le Havre AC said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Thomas Bernard 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Tours
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Club Brugge tell Tours: Nordin Jackers 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Yann Poirier 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Raymond Henry 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
- Transfer targets Tours try to borrow Sébastien Cibois
- Transfer targets A loan move for Diego Callai is in the works
- Squad Tours are still strangers to each other