The Tours Chronicle
Squad7 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Émile Paul
63 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tours lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Pierre Aubert breaks a bone — 68 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 68 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Jun 2027
Tours say no — this time
The offer from OGC Nice for Édouard Dupuis 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.
Match7 Jun 2027
Tours up to position 3
41 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market7 Jun 2027
Luc Mercier has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tours they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Tours
Daniel Laine 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.
Boardroom7 Jun 2027
Tours release $197.7K 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillaume Boyer is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market7 Jun 2027
David Arnaud is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Tours has been clear about where David Arnaud stands, which is more than many ever get.
In brief
- The terraces The stands have heard the Édouard Dupuis talk too
- Market Noah Franke placed on the list