diff --git a/router/src/lib.rs b/router/src/lib.rs
index 9e847fe2..5e207a03 100644
--- a/router/src/lib.rs
+++ b/router/src/lib.rs
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ mod token_serde {
                     ))
                 }
             }
+            Value::Null => Ok(None),
             _ => Err(de::Error::custom("invalid token format")),
         }
     }
diff --git a/router/src/main.rs b/router/src/main.rs
index b77117a1..c7e3f90b 100644
--- a/router/src/main.rs
+++ b/router/src/main.rs
@@ -254,7 +254,10 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), RouterError> {
 
     // Load tokenizer config if found locally, or check if we can get it from the API if needed
     let tokenizer_config = if let Some(path) = tokenizer_config_path {
-        tracing::info!("Using local tokenizer config from user specified path");
+        tracing::info!(
+            "Using local tokenizer config from user specified path {}",
+            path
+        );
         HubTokenizerConfig::from_file(&std::path::PathBuf::from(path))
     } else if local_model {
         tracing::info!("Using local tokenizer config");