Three Clubs Ahead Of Spurs On Antonio Nusa, So Group Chat Is Silent Until Archway

A group chat of six Tottenham supporters convened a formal session on the upper deck of a London bus on Friday morning to consider a report that three Premier League clubs have overtaken Spurs in the race for Antonio Nusa.

The report, published by Football Insider, says Arsenal, Aston Villa and Newcastle United are plotting January moves for the Leipzig winger and does not name Tottenham among the leading contenders. It is understood the chat was alerted by a link posted without comment at 7:42am.

The chair, a man in a rain jacket in the front seat, called the meeting to order by typing the word "right". He was seconded by a member who sent a single question mark, which the chair ruled was in order.

Members noted that Nusa has four goals and three assists in eight games, and the figure was read aloud twice. The report also cites an industry source who says it will take at least £60m, a sum the chat agreed was a lot of money, in the absence of a competing view.

I'm not saying we should have done more in the summer. I'm saying somebody should have asked the group.

A motion to "keep an eye on it" was carried without dissent, though the member who proposed it later asked which eye. A second motion, to note that the report expects Spurs to prioritise a number nine, was carried after one member typed "number nine" in capitals, three times, and then left the chat for four minutes.

The session then entered what the minutes describe as a period of reflection, lasting eleven stops, during which the only message sent was a photograph of the bus's own handrail.

The bus reached Archway at 8:19am and the chat was reconvened by a photograph of a pigeon.