With the release of the EPL, Japanese national university Minamino and Korean legend Park Chu-young renew their contracts until 2027
Mar 04, 2025
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Monaco announced on its official website on the 4th (Korea time) "Monaco is pleased to announce the extension of Minamino's contract for an additional season. Japanese attacking midfielder Minamino, 30, now stays with the club until June 2027", and signed a two-year extension contract.
Minamino succeeded in challenging Europe by moving to RB Salzburg in 2015 after growing up in Japan's prestigious Cerezo Soraka and showing potential. In Salzburg, Minamino grew quickly. From the 2016-2017 season, he played as Salzburg's main player. At this time, Minamino also formed a relationship with Hwang Hee-chan, the Korean national team.
Hwang Hee-chan and Minamino grew quickly in the season when they met Elling Holan. In particular, Minamino was impressed by former Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp as he played an active role in two UEFA Champions League (UCL) games against Liverpool in the 2019-2020 season. Klopp immediately recruited Minamino and landed in the English Premier League (EPL).
However, Minamino's life in the EPL was disastrous. Although it should be considered that he moved from the winter transfer market, Minamino was very sluggish as he scored only 0 goals in 14 games in his first season. Nothing changed in the 2020-2021 season. He was not good enough to be in Liverpool, which was a favorite. I went on loan to Southampton in the middle of the season and looked for a turnaround, but it was me as well.
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Minamino was selected as Monaco's Player of the Year with nine goals and six assists in 30 league games. This season, Minamino has also shown a record of compliance with six goals and five assists in 33 games. Monaco was satisfied with Minamino's performance and renewed the contract, and Minamino also showed loyalty to Monaco.
From now on, Minamino will challenge the Korean legend and Asian senior Park Chu-young record. Park Chu-young played from the 2008-2009 season to the 2010-2011 season, scoring 26 goals and 14 assists for Monaco. So far, Minamino has scored 16 goals and 15 assists in 89 games. If he scores more than 11 goals while playing for the next two seasons, he will become the top scorer in Monaco Asia. If he scores more than 10 offensive points, he will become Monaco's record number of offensive points from Asia.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
