The Tours Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
Richard Poirier damages knee ligaments — 122 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 122 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Cruel end for AS Nancy as Tours pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Tours scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Richard Laurent runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market24 Aug 2026
AJ Auxerre come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tours did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
Émile Huet 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.
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Louis Prévost 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean-Luc Philippe 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Tours find a way past AS Nancy
AS Nancy made Tours work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Squad Jean-Luc Philippe gets it from the manager
- Market Vis Pesaro are about to pick up the phone
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Jean-Luc Philippe