Hervé Mathieu

Striker - Tours
25 Dec 2026
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Marked for Hervé Mathieu

19 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Dec 2026

Emmanuel Dumont breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Mathieu Blanc runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad7 Dec 2026

David Roche 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.

Squad7 Dec 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.

Match5 Dec 2026

Thomas Renard sends Tours past Valenciennes

It finished 2‑0, and it was Thomas Renard’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Tours.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Thomas Renard was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.08. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Tours lose Guillaume Martin

58 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Boardroom7 Dec 2026

$263.9K on the table at Tours

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

Loan watch7 Dec 2026

Richard Perrin has seen enough of RC Lens

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Tours, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

Back issues
18 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near David Dupuy

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Henri Le Gall 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Robert Roche falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match28 Nov 2026

Clermont Foot take the points off Tours

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad30 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Joseph Blanc

“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.

Loan watch30 Nov 2026

Hervé Royer wants to come home

“I did not go to RC Lens to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tours and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 16 matches say the rest.

In brief

17 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

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

16 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Mathieu Blanc runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 52. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match14 Nov 2026

Tours make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Tours have 4 straight wins of it.

Match14 Nov 2026

Tours are at home on the road

5 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Yann Bernard 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Henri Le Gall falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match14 Nov 2026

Mathieu Blanc the difference as Tours beat US Creteil

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Mathieu Blanc. 3‑1 against US Creteil, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces16 Nov 2026

The crowd has taken to Mathieu Blanc

At 23 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Yann Bernard is carrying Tours

11 goals and a season average of 7.23. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Ninety minutes of Yann Bernard at his very best

Marked 8.20. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Tours.

In brief

5 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Mathieu Blanc

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market31 Aug 2026

Dominique Guérin asks to leave Tours

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Tours

Henri Le Gall 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A move Noan Géraux would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Noan Géraux is living that version at Tours, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Noan Géraux signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Noan Géraux and Tours agree another 3 years.

Market31 Aug 2026

A long bet from Tours on Noan Géraux

He is 20, and nobody at Tours signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

Market31 Aug 2026

Bourg-Peronnas expected to open talks for Rémy Meunier

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Tours will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match29 Aug 2026

Honours even between Tours and Clermont Foot

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Gabriel Cousin dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief