Tottenham Hotspur are set to tie down Son Heung-min for an additional 12 months, nearly erasing the chance that the membership captain might head for the exit door this summer season.
Son took on a brand new stage of accountability in 2023/24 following Harry Kane’s departure and scored 17 Premier League objectives to match his second finest single season tally within the competitors.
However the South Korean icon will flip 32 earlier than subsequent season begins, together with his age sufficient to maintain the hypothesis over a possible transfer to the Saudi Professional League burning.
Son has will quickly enter the final 12 months of the long-term deal he signed again in 2021, however The Athletic writes {that a} one-year possibility to increase it till 2026 can be triggered. It means the brand new expiration date of his contract can be pushed to per week earlier than his thirty fourth birthday.
Final summer season, Son emphatically revealed he had little curiosity in shifting to Saudi Arabia.
“If I wished to go there, I might not be right here!” the participant mentioned at a press convention throughout Tottenham’s pre-season tour of Australia. “I like enjoying soccer. Clearly cash can also be essential however I dream [of] enjoying [in the] Premier League.”
This season was the primary of Son’s time at Spurs that the membership didn’t play European soccer. An improved fifth place end, up from a disastrous eighth 12 months in the past, interprets into qualification for the newly reformatted Europa League.
Son beforehand performed a big half in Tottenham’s nice European journey of recent instances when crew, then underneath Mauricio Pochettino, reached the Champions League last in 2019 with a dramatic semi-final comeback towards Erik ten Hag’s Ajax.
“I believe I am the kind of man who by no means needs to surrender and tries to work as laborious as doable till the final results of the sport. I believe when you do not consider, this stuff do not occur,” he instructed 90min for a particular current oral historical past of the crunch second leg.
