David Garnier

Right Midfielder - Tours
3 Jan 2027
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Marked for David Garnier

21 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad21 Dec 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Éverton

83 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tours lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Both of them Christophe Philippe's — 9.01

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.01, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match19 Dec 2026

Tours leave it late against Clermont Foot

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Clermont Foot spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Defences have started doubling up on Christophe Philippe

16 goals and a season average of 7.46 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Match19 Dec 2026

Nobody wants to play Tours right now

4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Tours

Benjamin Stambouli 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.

Match19 Dec 2026

Christophe Philippe sends Tours past Clermont Foot

It finished 2‑1, and it was Christophe Philippe’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tours.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Tours lose Louis Ménard

44 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Benoît Leclercq

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Benoît Leclercq, and the manager let it.

In brief

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9 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tours lose David Garnier

16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Arnaud Roche 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Whatever happens, Tours do not lose

6 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Tours see off Chamois Niortais

Three points for Tours, 1‑0 the final word against Chamois Niortais in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad28 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Tours

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

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Louis Deschamps at his very best

Marked 8.01. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tours.

The dugout28 Sep 2026

The manager makes an example of Louis Baron

“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 dugout28 Sep 2026

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Philippe Giraud, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Market28 Sep 2026

François Leclerc is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Tours has been clear about where François Leclerc stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

1 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market3 Aug 2026

Tours say no — this time

The offer from Casertana for Nicolas Morel was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Tours

Arnaud Roche 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.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Tarta beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Émile Roux 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

Christophe Philippe the difference as Tours beat Dijon

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Christophe Philippe. 2‑1 against Dijon, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Christophe Philippe was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.77. 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 ratings3 Aug 2026

David Garnier in the eights

A performance of 8.12 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market3 Aug 2026

Guillaume Robert attracts admirers

The name of Guillaume Robert has come up in conversations Tours were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Philippe Giraud: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.

In brief