Saudi SON again? It's just a click-through deal, but the reality is Saudi wishful thinking
Feb 13, 2025
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Ekrem Konur, a reporter who works for various media including Kurt Offside in the UK, said on his personal SNS on the 12th (Korean time), `Saudi professional league clubs plan to offer 50 million euros (about 75.3 billion won) for 32-year-old Son Heung-min who plays for Tottenham.'
It's a small story. Saudi professional league clubs have always wanted Son Heung-min. Because he is the best star player in Asia. They are already playing in Saudi Arabia for world-class players such as Cristiano Ronaldo (Al-Nasr) and Karim Benzema (Al-Etihad) to make last-minute money. Saudi professional league clubs are always playing the media by informing some reporters of such plans, whether during the transfer period or not. The plan to recruit Son Heung-min is only a media play that Saudi professional league clubs always play.
Son Heung-min is always on the recruitment list of our professional league clubs. This is because he has great skill and star quality. In the end, these reports are also part of this 'dollary'.
In addition, anyone can make a recruitment plan at any time. Immediately, Iceland's UMF Stjarnan jokingly suggested on social media that he would provide a special uniform for Ronaldo and a unique training environment in the lava zone. Of course, it was not realistic, but it was just a marketing activity to increase their brand value.
It wasn't just the players. A domestic bank has entered the race to recruit Chelsea. This was nothing more than a promotional strategy to increase their brand rather than to acquire Chelsea.
In this way, Saudi professional league clubs are also just showing their intention to make their names known by leaking information regardless of Tottenham or Son Heung-min's thoughts.
The summer transfer market is still more than three months away. Whatever Saudi professional league clubs say, it's their freedom. However, it is too much to go out at this point to say that Son Heung-min will go to Saudi Arabia in the summer. Of course, Son Heung-min may go to Saudi one day. But it's just the result of 'Indian-style rain ritual' which continues to hold ancestral rites until it rains.
The point is this. The Saudis are doing as they do. There is nothing else. The media that reported this collected the number of clicks. In the end, the damage is only being seen by fans who remain still.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
