The Tours Chronicle
Squad26 Oct 2026
Luc Schneider damages knee ligaments — 19 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Tours
Alexandre Coeff and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match24 Oct 2026
Tours find a way past Red Star
Red Star made Tours work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Christophe Dumont is carrying Tours
12 goals and a season average of 7.25. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
One of their own: Benoît David
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Christophe Dumont
Marked 8.68 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Benoît David
Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Noam Bonnet
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tours
16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Player ratings Joseph Dupuis was unplayable
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Tours pick somebody else ahead of Léo Schwechlen