The Tours Chronicle
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Tours
Kaye Furo 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Raymond Henry 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
a squad player out for 46 days
The medical room confirms 46 days on the sidelines for a squad player, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Samuel Giménez wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tours can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
Stéphane Lemaire has made USM Khenchela’s shirt his own
29 starts now, an average of 6.45, and the team sheet at USM Khenchela has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
Loan watch19 Apr 2027
Édouard Dupuy keeps scoring at Mansfield Town
39 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Samuel Souprayen a promise
- The dugout David David knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Jean Da Silva keeps his manager's vote
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Stéphane Lemaire