The Tours Chronicle
Market17 Aug 2026
Tours sell their best player to Monaco
$14.4M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
$660.0K — a new record at Tours
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Richard Poirier damages knee ligaments — 129 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 129 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Marc Barbier
Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
Tours say no — this time
The offer from Paris FC for Rémy Simon 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $14.4M sale of Frédéric Michel
He is going to Monaco, the club has $14.4M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tours
Louis Prévost 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Graduation day at Tours
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Tours spend $660.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $660.0K for Yuliwes Bellache, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
In brief
- Market Alexandre Rolland steps up from the Tours academy
- Match Tours find a way past US Creteil
- Squad Rémy Simon falls out with a teammate over standards