A tiny supporter at a stadium gate hands out tickets from an enormous unspooling ticket roll, with a double-decker bus waiting nearby at night.

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Rudiger Free Transfer Link Sends Supporter To Stadium Gates To Hand Out Bus Transfers

Barry Napier · Transfer Correspondent15 October · Reading time: one pint

Spurs Web reports, citing Football Insider, that Tottenham are keeping tabs on the Real Madrid defender ahead of a possible free transfer next summer, though Saudi Arabia is thought likelier.

A Tottenham man has spent the morning outside the stadium handing out free transfers, having read that the club are considering one.

The Herald understands the man took the phrase free transfer at its word. By 8am he had a stack of paper bus transfers, a folding stool and a flask, and was positioned beside the main gate.

The trigger was a Spurs Web article, itself based on a report by Football Insider, which says Tottenham are keeping tabs on Real Madrid defender Antonio Rudiger. His contract expires at the end of the season. The report adds that Spurs explored a move in the summer and opted against firming it up.

It says free. I've got free. Nobody can say I haven't got free.

He has so far issued eleven transfers, nine of them to a man waiting for the 73 who had not asked for one. The other two went to a passing postman, who accepted them out of politeness.

The same report states that Rudiger's age is a concern for some at the club, and that a Saudi Pro League move is understood to be the most likely outcome. The man has acknowledged this and said it makes the free transfers more urgent.

Rudiger scored a late winner for Real Madrid against Roma on Wednesday night, making it 4-3 after trailing 3-1. The man has watched the goal four times and says it confirms everything.

At press time he was explaining to the postman how the connections work.

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Kroupi Returns To Outdoor Training So Supporter Takes His Ironing Board Outside The Stadium In Solidarity

Barry Napier · Transfer Correspondent15 October · Reading time: one pint

Bournemouth Echo journalist Alexander Smith, relaying Marco Rose, says the Tottenham and Arsenal target Eli Junior Kroupi is back in outdoor training and could return within weeks, having reportedly been 24 hours from an £80m Spurs offer before breaking his foot.

A Tottenham man has taken his ironing board out of the spare room and set it up on the forecourt of the stadium, in what he described as the only appropriate response to the news from Dorset.

The update, relayed by the Bournemouth Echo's Alexander Smith from manager Marco Rose, states that Eli Junior Kroupi has returned to outdoor training following a broken foot, and could be available again within the next few weeks.

The Herald understands the man read the phrase twice over breakfast, set down his toast, and concluded that the matter had moved outside, and that he was therefore obliged to follow it.

If he's out in the open air, I'm not doing the shirts in the box room. It wouldn't be right.

The striker was reportedly close to the top of Tottenham's summer wishlist, and Spurs were said to be just 24 hours from an offer worth more than £80m before the injury. The man has applied the same timescale to his own affairs and says he will be fully pressed by Thursday.

Omar Marmoush, signed on an initial loan from Manchester City, is yet to score for Tottenham, a point the man raised unprompted while adjusting the board's one short leg with a folded flyer.

Fichajes reports that Arsenal and Barcelona are also interested and that Bournemouth could demand around €100m. The report is unconfirmed. The man has nonetheless placed a second shirt on the board, in case of competition.

At time of going to press he had ironed four items, none of them his own, and was monitoring the situation from a flask.

The board remains upright.

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