Marcel Roche

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7 Sep 2026
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Marked for Marcel Roche

5 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

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

Back issues
3 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market17 Aug 2026

Tours say no — this time

The offer from Stade Brestois for Marcel Roche 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A day Louis Boyer will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market17 Aug 2026

Pierre Robert’s move to Dijon falls through

The deal that would have taken Pierre Robert to Dijon has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Tours with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Jonny Arriba would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jonny Arriba is living that version at Tours, and it tends to show in the first month.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Marcel Roche at 20 — 7.89

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marcel Roche did not need any: 7.89, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market17 Aug 2026

Eyes on Guilherme Andrade again

The phone has started ringing about Guilherme Andrade again, and this time the name on the line is US Creteil. Tours are listening politely and promising nothing.

Match15 Aug 2026

Louis Boyer sends Tours past US Creteil

It finished 5‑4, and it was Louis Boyer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tours.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Tours

Arnaud Philippe 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Tours and US Creteil in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief

2 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad10 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Rémi Jean out for 20 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Tours say no — this time

The offer from RC Strasbourg for Pierre Robert 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Louis Boyer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Louis Boyer and Tours agree another 5 years.

In brief

1 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A debut Marcel Roche will not forget — 7.94

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.94 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A brace, and Louis Boyer takes the afternoon — 8.40

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Louis Boyer provided it, and the 8.40 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Both of them Guillaume Dubois's — 8.06

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market3 Aug 2026

Tours turn down Dijon for Denis Dupont

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match1 Aug 2026

Tours get the job done against Dijon

A 5‑3 win over Dijon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Marcel 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.

Match1 Aug 2026

Guillaume Dubois among the goals in a wild afternoon

8 goals in one match, Guillaume Dubois on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Tours and Dijon.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Tours training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jérôme Martin is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces3 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Marcel Roche

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief