The Tours Chronicle
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Louis Nguyen
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Paul Rousseau, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.15
A mark of 8.15 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market3 Aug 2026
Tours say no — this time
The offer from Gubbio for Richard Charpentier 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Eyes on Rémy Garcia again
The phone has started ringing about Rémy Garcia again, and this time the name on the line is Monaco. Tours are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market3 Aug 2026
Louis Nguyen wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Tours hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Market3 Aug 2026
Tomás Cabrera wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louis Huet 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Mathieu Henry 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Paul Rousseau
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.
In brief
- Match Tours find a way past Dijon
- Squad Louis Nguyen knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Paul Rousseau finally opens his account