The Tours Chronicle
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Mathieu Blanc
Successful dribbles: 54. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match23 Nov 2026
Tours up to position 1
34 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match18 Nov 2026
Tours bow out of the cup
Paris Saint-Germain go through and Tours go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Yann Bernard 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
A goal and an assist for Henri Maillard — 7.72
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.72 beside his name.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Henri Le Gall 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Henri Maillard’s goal not enough for Tours
Henri Maillard scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to AS Nancy, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Robert Roche
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Tours
12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Player ratings Yann Roux gives it away
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Joseph Blanc
- Market The Yann Bernard story refuses to die