Gabriel Leroy

Goalkeeper - Tours
17 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Gabriel Leroy

14 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Jérôme Boyer wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Tours hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Match

Whatever happens, Tours do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Nicolás Rodríguez 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.

Player ratings

Jérôme Boyer runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Sébastien Martinez

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad

Marouane Admar signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marouane Admar commits to Tours for another 3 years.

Squad

Jérôme Boyer named player of the month

The award goes to Jérôme Boyer, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.

Boardroom

Tours release $1.2M for the manager

The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.

Loan watch

Vincent Paul wants to come home

“I did not go to FC Lorient to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tours and fight for my place.” 5 appearances in 11 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Tours up to position 1

19 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match

Jérôme Boyer leads the rout of AC Ajaccio

3‑0, and Jérôme Boyer took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Tours tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Market

Nicolás Rodríguez 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Raymond Pierre

Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Both of them Jérôme Boyer's — 8.67

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.67, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Tempers go at Tours

Nicolás Rodríguez 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.

Squad

Thomas Michel 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.

The terraces

A long trip to AC Ajaccio worth making

3-0, and a corner of somebody else's ground that made more noise than the rest of it put together. Those coaches leave before dawn and nobody outside them ever mentions it.

Squad

Gabriel Leroy has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Tours will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

8 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Tours bow out of the cup

Olympique Lyonnais go through and Tours go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Squad

Jérôme Boyer takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Thibault Morin

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Raymond Meyer 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.

Match

Jérôme Boyer among the goals in a wild afternoon

6 goals in one match, Jérôme Boyer on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Tours and Chamois Niortais.

Match

Jérôme Boyer sends Tours past Chamois Niortais

It finished 4‑2, and it was Jérôme Boyer’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tours.

The terraces

Tours supporters have found a favourite in Jacques Jacquet

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Jacques Jacquet 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.

Squad

Gabriel Leroy 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.

Player ratings

Jérôme Boyer was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.70. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief