Émile Simon

Central Midfielder - Tours
9 Sep 2026
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Marked for Émile Simon

5 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Gessime Yassine

Successful dribbles: 54. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market31 Aug 2026

Émile Simon 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A move Aboubakar Diaby would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Aboubakar Diaby is living that version at Tours, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Bruno Guillaume 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Gabriel Dupuis 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Tours come up short against Clermont Foot

Clermont Foot left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Henri Laine runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

Tours sell a favourite for $5.4M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Roger Robert was one of the reasons people came, and $5.4M does not replace that by itself.

Market24 Aug 2026

Tours sell Roger Robert for $5.4M

Roger Robert has left for Stade Brestois in a $5.4M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market24 Aug 2026

Sébastien Petit puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tours, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market24 Aug 2026

Sochaux join the queue for Bruno Guillaume

Add another name to the list: Sochaux have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Bruno Guillaume. The answer from Tours has not changed — yet.

Squad24 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Bruno Guillaume

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bruno Guillaume, and the manager let it.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Émile Simon 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

6 new faces, and Tours are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Match22 Aug 2026

Tours share the spoils with AS Nancy

A 1‑1 draw with AS Nancy leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

2 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market10 Aug 2026

Tours say no — this time

The offer from Valenciennes for Didier Denis 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Paris FC watching Roger Robert

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Tours have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Didier Denis signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Didier Denis and Tours agree another 3 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Tours

Didier Denis 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Roger Robert 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Gabriel Dupuis knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tours, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

  • Market Tours bring in an old head
  • Market Émile Simon told to find a new club
  • The terraces Supporters make their feelings known about Roger Robert