The Tours Chronicle
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Frédéric Le Gall takes the afternoon — 8.46
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Frédéric Le Gall provided it, and the 8.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Sep 2026
Dominique Henry 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
Red Star 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Pedro Godoy 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Pedro Godoy runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market7 Sep 2026
Tours sell Julien Martin for $320.0K
Julien Martin has left for AC Ajaccio in a $320.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match5 Sep 2026
Tours see off Valenciennes
Three points for Tours, 2‑1 the final word against Valenciennes in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Thibault Paris
At 21 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The month belongs to Frédéric Le Gall
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Tours have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
In brief
- Squad Words at Tours training over how hard people work
- Squad Daniel Huet named in the team of the month
- Market The Thibault Paris story refuses to die