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Edition
The Tours Chronicle
15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match15 Feb 2027
Tours are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 45 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Nacim El Hassani 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
7 new faces, and Tours are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
In brief
- Squad Denis Muller knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad A season on the outside for Marcel Adam
- Market The window shut and Michel Mercier is still in the building