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Soccer player tries to force transfer by showing up to team’s facility wearing rival club's jersey

Didier Lamkel Zé found a creative way to try to get Royal Antwerp, his Belgian soccer club, to approve a transfer for him — he showed up at Antwerp’s training facility earlier this week clad in the purple shirt of league rival Anderlecht.

Not surprisingly, the move wasn’t well received. Royal Antwerp employees refused to let the Cameroonian defender into the building. Lamkel Zé was photographed trying to pull open the front door:

This has got to be the best transfer story of the window so far... ud83dude48

Royal Antwerp forward Didier Lamkel Zé turned up to training wearing arch-rivals Anderlecht's kit, to try and force a move to Panathinaikos ud83dude2c

And of course they didn't let him in.