The Tours Chronicle
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Rémi Renard was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 38. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market17 Aug 2026
Nimes come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Tours did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Marcel Dupuis at 21 — 7.65
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marcel Dupuis did not need any: 7.65, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Ilian Mhand due for a Tours medical
Everything agreed with Paris Saint-Germain, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Tours
Marcel Dupuis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 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
Words at Tours training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rémi Chevalier 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Door shut on Moïse Adilehou
Tours asked and Stade Lavallois said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mathieu Charpentier
At 17 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
- Market Tours promote Marc Vidal from within
- Market One of our own: Nicolas Blanchard joins the Tours first team
- Market Tours promote Jacques Guyot from within