Season Ticket Holder Lends Folding Chair To Stadium Railings After Endrick Loan Report, Recalls It After Four Minutes

A Tottenham season ticket holder lent a folding chair to the railings outside the stadium on Monday morning, on the understanding that it would be returned in January, following a report that Real Madrid are ready to let Endrick leave on loan.

The Herald understands the arrangement was agreed with the railings verbally and at no point in writing. Football Insider reported that Tottenham are among the clubs keeping a close eye on the situation, and the man said he had taken the phrase at its word. He has had one eye shut since half past nine.

It's only a loan. No obligation. If it doesn't work out I just take the chair back and nobody says a word.

The report adds that the Brazilian forward has played four minutes this season, and spent the second half of last season at Lyon. The man said he had therefore set the loan period accordingly and started a stopwatch on his phone, which he held in the hand not being used to keep the eye shut.

The transfer market expert Pete O'Rourke told the website that several clubs will likely enter the race if the player is made available. A second man walking a dog stopped briefly at the railings at 10:20am. The season ticket holder confirmed he regarded this as competition and moved the chair six inches to the left.

Spurs are also said to be searching for a new number nine, with Richarlison expected to leave in January. The man has placed the chair facing the main gate, which he described as the position a striker would take, and which a steward described as the position of a chair.

At four minutes the man exercised what he called a break clause, removed the chair from the railings, folded it, and carried it back across the forecourt. He said he would reassess in the winter.

The railings have not commented.