The Tours Chronicle
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Gessime Yassine runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A debut Charles Leclercq will not forget — 7.64
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.64 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Match5 Sep 2026
Cruel end for Valenciennes as Tours pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Tours scored in the 95th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Yves Rémy, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.12
A mark of 8.12 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market7 Sep 2026
Hervé Gautier 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Sébastien Arnaud 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Tours see off Valenciennes
Three points for Tours, 3‑2 the final word against Valenciennes in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Nhoa Sangui 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Marc Breton
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Player ratings Robert Moreau in the eights
- Squad The manager makes an example of Noam Bonnet
- Squad Sébastien Arnaud has had enough of the bench