The Tours Chronicle
Match15 Aug 2026
Thomas Laine leads the rout of US Creteil
3‑0, and Thomas Laine took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Tours tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tours say no — this time
The offer from RC Lens for Joseph Dupuy 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Arnaud Aubry, 33, rolls back the years — 8.21
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.21 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tours sell Antoine Picard for $1.3M
Antoine Picard has left for FC Metz in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Benoît Benoit 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Tours
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jérôme Joly 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jérôme Joly gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tours promote François Fleury from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. François Fleury has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Frédéric Dupuy joins the Tours first team
- Player ratings One of those days for Benoît Benoit
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Tours