The Toulouse FC Courier
Match21 Aug 2027
15 matches without a win for Toulouse FC
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Toulouse FC are no longer polite ones.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ismail Diallo: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Toulouse FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Arthur Piedfort is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad23 Aug 2027
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.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Kjetil Haug attracts admirers
The name of Kjetil Haug has come up in conversations Toulouse FC were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A late step up for Naouirou Ahamada
At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Aron Dønnum
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Patrick Faure joins the Toulouse FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Faure is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Toulouse FC promote Jean Le Goff from within
- Market Jérôme Da Silva steps up from the Toulouse FC academy
- Player ratings Yann Gboho was on a different afternoon to everybody else