The Tours Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nhoa Sangui
24 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Tours turn down RC Lens for Rémy Rousseau
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Roger attracts admirers
The name of Emmanuel Roger has come up in conversations Tours were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market24 Aug 2026
Frédéric Guérin 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 The request is on a desk at Tours, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
Tours make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tours have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Roger 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Pierre Guillaume moves on
FC Nantes pay $980.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michel Louis 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Emmanuel Roger sends Tours past AS Nancy
It finished 2‑0, and it was Emmanuel Roger’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tours.
In brief
- Player ratings One of those days for Emmanuel Roger
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Paul Martin
- Squad Thomas Hubert out for 14 days