Henri Laurent

Left Forward - Siauliai
18 Feb 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Henri Laurent

23 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Abubakar Abubakar arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Abubakar Abubakar has, at Siauliai, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

A falling-out at Siauliai

Alessandro Berardi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Josh Robinson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Josh Robinson and Siauliai agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dániel Farkas 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 dugout

Victor gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Siauliai and Justice Apaingolo are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Tomas Simkus is in the works

Siauliai have made the call to Atlantas. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Alessandro Berardi gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Alessandro Berardi is on it.

Market

Siauliai bring in an old head

Henri Laurent is 34 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Tours run riot against AS Nancy

6‑2, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Henri Le Roux scores twice — 9.98

Two goals and a mark of 9.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Tours say no — this time

The offer from Córdoba for Philippe 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.

Squad

3 goals for Frédéric Dupuy

The match ball belongs to Frédéric Dupuy, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Vintage Philippe Robert — 7.87

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.87, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market

Henri Laurent asks to leave Tours

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

Tours make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tours have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Tours

Dominique Gaillard 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.

Match

8 goals as Tours and AS Nancy go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Tours and AS Nancy, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief

2 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Tours say no — this time

The offer from Le Havre AC for Michel Gérard 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.

Squad

Frédéric Dupuy signs on for more

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

Transfer targets

Silas Ostrzinski due for a Tours medical

Everything agreed with Borussia Dortmund, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Words exchanged at Tours

Dominique Gaillard and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Frédéric Dupuy 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.

Transfer targets

RC Strasbourg tell Tours: Fabio Baldé is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

Frédéric Dupuy asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

The division's best last weekend was a Tours man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Henri Le Roux was the best thing in any of them.

Market

Henri Laurent told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Henri Laurent has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Tours.

In brief