The Toulouse FC Courier
Market17 Aug 2026
Yuliwes Bellache is a Toulouse FC player
The fee is $660.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Clermont Foot drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Toulouse FC get their man
The chase for Josué Escartin ended with $620.0K changing hands and Red Star out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Toulouse FC
Mark McKenzie 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
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Toulouse FC
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Laurent Collet steps up from the Toulouse FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Laurent Collet has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market17 Aug 2026
One of our own: Stéphane Brun joins the Toulouse FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stéphane Brun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
The Toulouse FC debt reaches $15.3M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Abu Francis
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Rafik Messali 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.
In brief
- Squad Yann Gboho has seen what the next man earns
- Boardroom Toulouse FC spend where nobody can see it