The Tours Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
$3.5M — a new record at Tours
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Match22 Aug 2026
Tours tear AS Nancy apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 7‑1 against AS Nancy, and it could have been more.
Market24 Aug 2026
RC Lens 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Laurent takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Raymond Robert takes the afternoon — 8.03
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Raymond Robert provided it, and the 8.03 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Alexis Mirbach will not be coming to Tours
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at FC Nantes is saying, and nobody at Tours is enjoying the guessing.
Market24 Aug 2026
Eyes on Emmanuel Laurent again
The phone has started ringing about Emmanuel Laurent again, and this time the name on the line is Union Berlin. Tours are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marcel Adam, 33, rolls back the years — 7.82
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.82 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Édouard Picard pops up at the right end — 7.95
7.95, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
In brief
- Market Henri Olivier hands in a written request
- Match Tours make it 3 in a row
- Squad Édouard Picard in a row with a teammate