The Tours Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jean Leroy damages knee ligaments — 23 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 23 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marc Renard stands alone
10 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match22 Aug 2026
Émile Lucas breaks AS Nancy hearts
Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Émile Lucas scored in the 89th minute, AS Nancy had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Tours took the lot.
Market24 Aug 2026
Not going: Marc Dumas stays at Tours
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Burgos had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A day Émile Lucas 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Too dear: Tours walk away from Stanis Idumbo
$5.4M was the most the club would pay and Monaco were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market24 Aug 2026
Julien Lemoine 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Tours find a way past AS Nancy
AS Nancy made Tours work for it, but the scoreboard read 5‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Squad Michel Charpentier in a row with a teammate
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Émile Lucas at his very best
- The terraces One of their own: Éder Cavalcante