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| K-League Supernova Yang Min-hyuk's transfer to Tottenham has been announced. Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. It is the birth of the 16th Premier Leaguer in Korean history. Following Lee Young-pyo in 2005 and Son Heung-min in 2015, Yang Min-hyuk will become a Tottenham player in 2025. Photo = Tottenham |
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The history of Tottenham, Korea, and Gangwon-do is amazing.
Lee Young-pyo imprinted his name in Europe through the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea-Japan and then moved to PSV Eindhoven with Guus Hiddink. Lee Young-pyo, who showed good performance at Eindhoven, moved to Tottenham ahead of the 2005-2006 season.
Lee Young-pyo, who played the main role immediately after Tottenham's transfer, finished his first season smoothly. In the second season, Benoit Asu-Ecoto was recruited as a competitor and was initially pushed back by Pascal Simbongda, but Lee Young-pyo had a good season as he rebounded again in the second half.
In the 2007-2008 season, Lee also moved to Borussia Dortmund after showing his own performance for Tottenham.
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| K-League Supernova Yang Min-hyuk's transfer to Tottenham has been announced. Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. It is the birth of the 16th Premier Leaguer in Korean history. Following Lee Young-pyo in 2005 and Son Heung-min in 2015, Yang Min-hyuk will become a Tottenham player in 2025. |
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Ten years after Lee Young-pyo joined Tottenham in 2005, Tottenham recruited Son Heung-min from Bayer Leverkusen in the 2015-2016 season. Son's first season was not successful. He had difficulty adapting to the English Premier League (EPL) to the extent that he directly considered returning to the Bundesliga.
Eight years have passed, and Son Heung-min, who faces the 2024-2025 season, will remain one of Tottenham's best legends. Son Heung-min, who began flying in earnest from the 2016-2017 season, has grown into one of the best strikers in the world while under Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte. In the 2021-2022 season, he became a legend as he became the top scorer in the EPL.
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| K-League Supernova Yang Min-hyuk's transfer to Tottenham has been announced. Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. It is the birth of the 16th Premier Leaguer in Korean history. Following Lee Young-pyo in 2005 and Son Heung-min in 2015, Yang Min-hyuk will become a Tottenham player in 2025. |
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Now Son Heung-min is 32 years old, and at a time when Tottenham was thinking about who to recruit as Son Heung-min's successor, Korean talent appeared in Gangwon-do.
Yang Min-hyuk, who was born in 2006, stood out in the winter 2023 off-season training and joined the Gangwon FC first team. Gangwon intended to develop Yang Min-hyuk into the future of the team by signing a semi-professional contract.
Yang Min-hyuk was trusted by coach Yoon Jung-hwan from the beginning of the season and began to appear as the main player of Gangwon's first team. It is great that a young player born in 2006 plays on the professional stage, and Yang Min-hyuk's performance made everyone unable to close their mouths.
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| K-League Supernova Yang Min-hyuk's transfer to Tottenham has been announced. Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. It is the birth of the 16th Premier Leaguer in Korean history. Following Lee Young-pyo in 2005 and Son Heung-min in 2015, Yang Min-hyuk will become a Tottenham player in 2025. Photo = Courtesy of the Korea Professional Football League |
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Yang Min-hyuk's record set after his debut in Gangwon in March is the youngest score in K League 1 since the promotion system, the youngest ever Young Player of the Month award and the first Young Player award among semi-professional players, the first winner of three consecutive Young Player Awards, the youngest double-digit attack point in K League 1 and multiple goals. Yang Min-hyuk, who selected the best 11 rounds of high school players and even selected the first round MVP.
Yang Min-hyuk's performance caught the eye of scouts who were paying attention to the Korean market. Clubs that want to recruit Yang Min-hyuk immediately began to appear. In June, Gangwon CEO Kim Byung-ji revealed that he was negotiating with the EPL Big Club, drawing attention to where Yang Min-hyuk's destination would be.
Yang Min-hyuk's destination was announced on the 24th. Fabrizio Romano, an expert in the European transfer market, said on his personal SNS on the 24th (Korea time), `Tottenham is nearing the signing of Gangwon's 2006 winger Yang Min-hyuk. The contract is in the process of completion, and a medical test will take place afterwards" he said.
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| K-League Supernova Yang Min-hyuk's transfer to Tottenham has been announced. Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. It is the birth of the 16th Premier Leaguer in Korean history. Following Lee Young-pyo in 2005 and Son Heung-min in 2015, Yang Min-hyuk will become a Tottenham player in 2025. Photo = Tottenham |
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Immediately upon the news that Yang Min-hyuk was heading to Tottenham, the modifiers 'Second Son Heung-min' and 'Next Son Heung-min' began to appear. Yang Min-hyuk, a wing forward with scoring power like Son Heung-min, deserved this modifier because he was a Korean from Gangwon-do like Son Heung-min.
Tottenham have recently been very interested in recruiting under-20 resources. Lucas Beribal and Archie Gray, who joined this summer, were also top talents in Sweden and England, respectively. Both players were born in 2006, the same age as Yang Min-hyuk. Yang Min-hyuk can be said to be a recruitment that Tottenham does not just pay attention to European talent, but shows its willingness to recruit even Asian players if they have skills.
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| K-League Supernova Yang Min-hyuk's transfer to Tottenham has been announced. Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. It is the birth of the 16th Premier Leaguer in Korean history. Following Lee Young-pyo in 2005 and Son Heung-min in 2015, Yang Min-hyuk will become a Tottenham player in 2025. Photo = Tottenham |
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Tottenham completed all procedures for Yang Min-hyuk's transfer from Seoul as soon as they arrived in Korea on the 28th. First of all, Gangwon will wear Tottenham's uniform at the highest transfer fee for direct European players in the history of Korean soccer. Yang Min-hyuk said he has completed all the signing procedures with Tottenham and will be on a flight to London in the UK after completing this season in Gangwon Province.
Tottenham is also pleased to announce on its official website that it has agreed to recruit Yang Min-hyuk, who played for Kangwon in the K League 1 on the condition of a work permit and international permit. Yang Min-hyuk signed a contract by 2030 and is expected to join in January 2025, making the recruitment official. Yang Min-hyuk was offered an ultra-long-term contract of six years. I could see that Tottenham had really great expectations for Yang Min-hyuk.
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| K-League Supernova Yang Min-hyuk's transfer to Tottenham has been announced. Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. It is the birth of the 16th Premier Leaguer in Korean history. Following Lee Young-pyo in 2005 and Son Heung-min in 2015, Yang Min-hyuk will become a Tottenham player in 2025. Photo = Tottenham |
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Yang Min-hyuk said one of the reasons for choosing to transfer to Tottenham was Son Heung-min. He said "When I go to a team overseas, I have an adaptation problem, and I have Son Heung-min. As a Korean, it is easy to adjust to the problem of adaptation, and I think Son Heung-min had a good influence on making more choices because he is the captain of the Republic of Korea." After completing the transfer process, Yang Min-hyuk met with Son Heung-min and took pictures.
Expectations are really different in the UK. Spurs Web, which specializes in delivering Tottenham news, said there seems to be no danger at all in recruiting Yang Min-hyuk. Tottenham would have invested millions of euros for Yang Min-hyuk. Yang Min-hyuk will be the best if he develops into a fantastic player. Even if we don't do that, the end of the world will not be approaching,' he said, evaluating the recruitment of Yang Min-hyuk as a very successful one.
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| K-League Supernova Yang Min-hyuk's transfer to Tottenham has been announced. Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. It is the birth of the 16th Premier Leaguer in Korean history. Following Lee Young-pyo in 2005 and Son Heung-min in 2015, Yang Min-hyuk will become a Tottenham player in 2025. Photo = Tottenham |
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Yang Min-hyuk will join Tottenham in January next year. Attention is focusing on whether he will play in the first team immediately. If Yang Min-hyuk maintains his current momentum, he can play in the first team immediately. Yang Min-hyuk also immediately said he wanted to be helpful in the team.
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