Robert Moreau

Central Midfielder - Tours
10 Sep 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Robert Moreau

6 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

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 ratings

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.

Match

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 ratings

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Match

Tours see off Valenciennes

Three points for Tours, 3‑2 the final word against Valenciennes in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

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 terraces

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

Back issues
3 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Dominique Meunier runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 48. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

AS Nancy 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.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Robert Moreau at 21 — 7.81

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Robert Moreau did not need any: 7.81, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $1.8M sale of Didier Denis

He is going to Paris FC, the club has $1.8M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Tours sell Didier Denis for $1.8M

Didier Denis has left for Paris FC in a $1.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Gabriel Dupuis 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Tours

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Joseph Thomas steps up from the Tours academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Joseph Thomas 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.

Market

Laurent Renaud steps up from the Tours academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Laurent Renaud 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.

In brief