The Toulouse FC Courier
Squad21 Aug 2028
David Odogu 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.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Toulouse FC tie Alexandre Royer down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Andrija Živković in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Toulouse FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Toulouse FC
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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Djibril Sidibé has improved at 36, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
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.
Market21 Aug 2028
Toulouse FC promote David Dupont from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Dupont has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market21 Aug 2028
Robert Aubert steps up from the Toulouse FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Robert Aubert 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.
Market21 Aug 2028
One of our own: Yann Pierre joins the Toulouse FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Yann Pierre 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 One of our own: Robert François joins the Toulouse FC first team
- Squad Words at Toulouse FC training over how hard people work
- Match Point won or two lost for Toulouse FC?