“I don’t think I’ll be as happy as I am if I win the trophy as a captain,” Son Heung-min, who plays for Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League (EPL), said in an interview with the media.
And Son Heung-min seems to have rejected the temptation of 170 billion won and the opportunity to win the cup with Lee Kang-in.
Florian Flettenberg, who reported the news of the German version of Sky Sports, said on his SNS account on the 17th (Korea Standard Time), “With Tottenham expected to invoke the contract extension clause until 2026, there is a growing possibility that Son Heung-min will stay at Tottenham for another year,” adding, “The 32-year-old world-class winger also wants to stay at Tottenham.”
This is not much different from the “one-year contract extension theory” observed through foreign media, but there is a big difference in the part that includes Son Heung-min’s position. However, Son Heung-min has maintained his position that he wants to stay at Tottenham and continue playing in the Premier League.
Son Heung-min, who joined Tottenham in 2015, signed a four-year contract for an annual salary of about 18 billion won in 2021. At the time, the contract included an option to extend it by one year. Son Heung-min’s regular contract will remain until June 2025, but if Tottenham invokes an option to extend it by one year, it will remain until June 2026. This does not require Son Heung-min’s consent and is done in the form of a club notification.
Fabrizio Romano, an expert in the European soccer transfer market, also reported on the 13th that “Tottenham has entered the process of invoking an option to extend its contract with Son Heung-min until June 2026,” adding, “Tottenham plans to accompany Son for at least one season.” The British daily Telegraph also predicted earlier that “Tottenham will invoke a one-year extension option for Son Heung-min.”
Contact in the Saudi professional league, which aggressively sweeps global soccer stars with the scale of “Oil Money,” has steadily turned.
Spurs Web, which delivers news exclusively for Tottenham, reported on the 15th, “The team has the option to extend Son Heung-min’s contract for another year and keep him tied until the summer of 2026, and it is not known whether Son Heung-min’s amount per share will rise further by 190,000 pounds (about 334 million Korean won).”
“Son Heung-min’s contract situation has recently attracted attention in Saudi Arabia, and several Saudi leagues are moving to take the Asian superstar to the Middle East,” he said. According to foreign media reports, a Saudi club offered Son Heung-min a large amount of about 170 billion won over four years last summer, but Son rejected it.
Recently, another key player of the Korean national soccer team, Lee Kang-in, is also interested in recruiting Son Heung-min at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) in French League 1.
Son Heung-min is considered a legend of Tottenham with 165 goals and 89 assists in 416 matches. In addition, he became the top scorer in Asia with 23 goals and seven assists in 35 league matches in the 2021-22 season, and has been an icon of 비아그라.
The only regrettable point, however, is that the team has yet to win a single championship. Tottenham’s last major championship was its record of winning the 2008 League Cup, which was 16 years ago. For this reason, fans of the club and local foreign media doubt whether it will be possible to retire with the trophy if Son chooses to extend his career path at Tottenham.
The most ideal is to win the Carabao Cup or UEFA Europa League, but even this is not easy in reality.
Meanwhile, Son Heung-min, a member of the South Korean national soccer team, is scheduled to play an A match against Palestine at 11 p.m. on the 19th at Amman International Stadium in Jordan.