SON intends to leave for honor → One-year extension still many questions Son Heung-min shows no signs of new negotiations to break up with Tottenham in the end
Dec 28, 2024
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British media BBC reported on the 28th (Korea time) 'Tottenham is likely to lose its long-time leading scorer. There are no signs of negotiating a new contract with Son Heung-min yet. A one-year extension is likely to still leave many questions about his future. Son has scored five goals in the league this season. You may think it's time to leave for new challenges and honors. Tottenham are currently expected to trigger an option to give him a one-year contract extension. The inevitable one-year extension will still leave many questions about his future,' the report said.
Son Heung-min is the core of Tottenham. He joined Tottenham through a transfer window in the summer of 2015. He scored double-digit points for eight consecutive seasons from the 2016-2017 season. Since the inauguration of the English Premier League (EPL) in 1992, only seven players have scored more than 10 goals for eight consecutive seasons. In addition, Son Heung-min became Asia's first top EPL scorer with 23 goals in the last 2021-2022 season. He was 100% pure top scorer with no penalty kick points. Son Heung-min also left 17 goals and 10 assists in the league in the 2023-2024 season. Once again, I joined '10 (goal)-10 (help) club'. He became the first Asian player to achieve EPL 10-10 (11 goals-10 assists) in the 2019-2020 season. After the 2020-2021 season (17 goals-10 assists), he was listed as the third 10-10 in his career.
In particular, Son Heung-min added two assists in the EPL match against Southampton on the 16th, building 68 assists on the EPL stage. 'Tottenham has risen to the top of the EPL's most assisted player in all time. According to the Tottenham website, Darren Anderton (67), who played in Tottenham's uniform from 1992 to 2004, has been the most helpful player so far. Son Heung-min broke the record as he built two assists on the day.
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British media Give Me Sports quoted Fabrizio Romano, who is familiar with the transfer market, as saying on the 23rd that Tottenham is expected to activate the option of extending Son's contract with Son until 2026. Son Heung-min is scheduled to leave Tottenham after his contract expires in the summer of 2025. Tottenham have the option of extending it by one year without offering any new conditions. Tottenham said it would be reasonable to activate options to protect their values. Reporter Romano added, `Son Heung-min is expected to stay at Tottenham until June 2026. The team's internal atmosphere since October."
There was a voice of anger. Tottenham News, which mainly delivers Tottenham's news, said on the 25th that Son Heung-min seems to be dissatisfied with Tottenham's uncertainty. The club plans to exercise a one-year extension option with Son Heung-min. However, this content has not yet been formalized. Former Tottenham scout Brian King said he couldn't understand why. "This should have been resolved three or four months ago," King said of Son's re-signing with Tottenham. It doesn't make sense. He is a high-quality player with a football career at Tottenham. There has never been a better player since joining the team. I'd definitely be mad. I wonder if his mind is 100% still at Tottenham. I don't know if Son Heung-min is happy at the moment. How many years has Son Heung-min been in the team. And he said, "I've been a star virtually since day one."
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