The Tours Chronicle
Match18 Jan 2027
Tours up to position 1
53 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match16 Jan 2027
No mercy from Tours
Bourg-Peronnas will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Tours were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Jérôme Boyer is carrying Tours
22 goals and a season average of 7.59. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A brace, and Jérôme Boyer takes the afternoon — 8.65
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jérôme Boyer provided it, and the 8.65 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A brace, and Julien Dupont takes the afternoon — 8.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Julien Dupont provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market18 Jan 2027
Monaco watching Jérôme Boyer
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Tours have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match16 Jan 2027
Nobody wins at Tours
12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market18 Jan 2027
Tours say no — this time
The offer from Charleroi for Jacques Joly 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Laurent Blanchard 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Joseph Jacquet
- Player ratings A masterclass from Laurent Blanchard
- Squad Thomas Michel falls out with a teammate over standards