The Tours Chronicle
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules François Aubert out for 43 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tours will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Louis Boyer scores twice — 8.40
Two goals and a mark of 8.40 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marcel Roche, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.12
A mark of 8.12 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market31 Aug 2026
Henri Lacroix hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tours can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
Louis Boyer sends Tours past Clermont Foot
It finished 3‑2, and it was Louis Boyer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tours.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Guillaume Dubois 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Tours are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Tours supporters have found a favourite in Marcel Roche
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Marcel Roche has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tours lose Benoît Renault
37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Squad Olivier Nguyen gets it from the manager
- Player ratings Guillaume Dubois runs at them all day
- Market Olivier Nguyen placed on the list