The Tours Chronicle
Market3 Aug 2026
Tours turn down Paradou for Édouard Dupuy
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tours
Yves Deschamps 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Guillaume Aubry 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.
The dugout3 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Tours against Dijon
0‑1 to Dijon, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Édouard Dupuy was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Dubois answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Tours ask about Luck Zogbé
A loan enquiry to Stade Brestois: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Tours try to borrow Joan Tincres
Le Havre AC have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- The dugout Yves Deschamps asks for a word with the manager
- Squad A first senior shirt for Olivier Adam
- The dugout Théodore Rey does not fit this one