Denis Benoit

Central Midfielder - Tours
30 Jan 2027
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Marked for Denis Benoit

3 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market17 Aug 2026

FC Metz 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Rémi Girard 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Yann Rodriguez 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Édouard Aubert 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Graduation day at Tours

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match15 Aug 2026

Patrick Philippe the difference as Tours beat US Creteil

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Patrick Philippe. 3‑1 against US Creteil, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market17 Aug 2026

Tours promote Hervé David from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Hervé David has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market17 Aug 2026

Jacques Muller steps up from the Tours academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jacques Muller has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

One of those days for Patrick Philippe

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match1 Aug 2026

Benoît Fernandez leads the rout of Dijon

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

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Benoît Fernandez scores twice — 8.29

Two goals and a mark of 8.29 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Stéphane Fabre, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.33

A mark of 8.33 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market3 Aug 2026

Sorrento 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Benoît Leclerc 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Édouard Aubert wants more than Tours are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market3 Aug 2026

Tours may not be able to give Renato Viana what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Renato Viana wants continental football; whether Tours can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Tours

Rémi Girard 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.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Denis Benoit

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief