Tottenham extend contract of ‚modern-day great‘ Son Heung-min

Tottenham’s Son Heung-min reacts after the English League Cup quarter-final soccer match between Tottenham and Manchester United, on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, December 2024. AP-Yonhap

Tottenham Hotspur introduced Tuesday they’ve exercised their choice to increase the contract of their South Korean captain Son Heung-min, who will now stick with the Premier League membership till the summer season of 2026.

Son joined Spurs in August 2015, after spending his early skilled years in Germany’s Bundesliga. He has scored 169 objectives, the fourth most in Tottenham historical past, and ranks eleventh of their all-time appearances record with 431. Son additionally owns the membership’s Premier League assists file with 68.

He has scored in double figures in each Premier League season since 2016-2017. He has 5 objectives in 17 matches to this point this season.

Son gained the Premier League Golden Boot because the scoring champion with a career-best 23 objectives within the 2021-2022 season. He was named Spurs‘ captain in August 2023.

Son has scored some landmark objectives for Spurs, together with the first-ever purpose at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in April 2019 and a shocking solo strike in opposition to Burnley that made him the second Asian winner of the FIFA Puskas Award for one of the best purpose of the yr 2020.

On their web site, Spurs stated Son, 32, has „turn into a world star throughout his time with us and a modern-day nice for Tottenham Hotspur.“

The membership’s resolution quells switch rumors linking Son to a handful of golf equipment, equivalent to FC Barcelona, Actual Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Manchester United, Galatasaray and Fenerbahce. (Yonhap)