The Tours Chronicle
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Guillaume Schmitt out for 26 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tours will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Noam Emeran: 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.” Tours have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market23 Aug 2027
Raymond Lemaire asks to leave Tours
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Tours
Benoît Leclercq 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Maxime Dagorn at Tours
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Maxime Dagorn is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Tours
5 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Luciano Peretti stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luciano Peretti and Tours agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match21 Aug 2027
3 matches without a goal for Tours
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Benoît Leclercq gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Market Tours promote Édouard Mercier from within
- Market Tours promote Patrick Perrot from within
- Market Rémi Marty steps up from the Tours academy