Tottenham seems to have decided to break up with Son Heung-min, according to reports. Tottenham seems to have decided to break up with Son Heung-min. Tottenham is making a cold choice.
Tottenham reportedly notified of the suspension while negotiating to rewrite the contract at all following Son Heung-min’s one-year extension contract, which is currently underway. This means that Tottenham has expressed no intention of renewing the contract.
As a result, some argued that Son Heung-min’s side was quite shocked.
The British soccer media ‘TBR Football’ announced the news on the 6th (Korea Standard Time), calling it an exclusive report.
“Tottenham is understood to have told Son Heung-min that there are no plans to negotiate a new contract,” the media said. “Tottenham has informed Son Heung-min of the fact, and Son Heung-min’s camp is quite shocked.”
The media also said Son Heung-min was more surprised as the contract renewal negotiations broke down while going smoothly. “Son Heung-min and his camp discussed a new contract with Tottenham. Both sides were positive about the contract extension, but the club seems to have suddenly changed its attitude,” he said.
Son’s contract with Tottenham ends in June next year. There have been various observations regarding the option of one-year extension that Tottenham can unilaterally exercise and signing a new multi-year contract with Son, but Tottenham is poised to use Son for another year as its current annual salary. In addition, the team seems to have decided not to renew the contract.
The controversy over Son Heung-min’s contract was reignited by the British daily Telegraph report on the 4th.
The newspaper said, “Tottenham will soon invoke the option of extending Son Heung-min’s one-year contract,” adding, “Tottenham signed the last contract with Son Heung-min in July 2021, and the club reportedly has the option to extend the contract for another year.”
He then emphasized that this option will be activated with unilateral notification from the Tottenham club.
“All Tottenham have to do is let Son know that they are exercising the option to extend their contract,” the Telegraph newspaper said. “Both Tottenham and Son agree on invoking the option,” adding, “If the option is exercised, Son will be with Tottenham for more than 10 years. The recruitment of Son is considered the best achievement in the history of the Tottenham transfer market.”
In fact, reports on the activation of one-year extension options related to Son Heung-min have already been continuously released since June.
At the time, Tom Barclay, a British “The Sun” and Tottenham reporter, also said on SNS, “Tottenham is reportedly planning to activate their one-year extension option to hand over Son Heung-min’s contract to the summer of 2026.”
The British ‘Guardian’ said in September, “Son Heung-min looked back on the contract situation after entering the last 12 months of his current contract at Tottenham,” adding, “Tottenham reportedly has the option to extend Son’s contract period by another year and plans to activate it.”
British media outlet “Cutoffside,” which dealt with Son Heung-min’s future several times since the beginning of this year and was the most sensitive, recently drew attention by claiming Son Heung-min’s theory of release in June next year.
“Tottenham has started a competition to recruit Son Heung-min as an excellent replacement,” the media reported in September. “His career at Tottenham seems to be over soon. Tottenham has found a successor but is competing with other clubs.”
Considering Son Heung-min’s age, he did not hesitate to argue that it is reasonable to leave with the expiration of his contract next summer.
Son Heung-min’s current contract ends in 2025, but the contract period is expected to be extended for another year with the same salary as the leading British newspapers reported it all at once. There have been a lot of observations about this, but Tottenham seems to have delivered to Son Heung-min that they will go to a new team that can pay the transfer fee next summer without intention to renew the contract, or that they will get a free contract status in 2026 and leave without transfer fees.
However, there is a small chance that Tottenham will send him out “for free” next year.
Son Heung-min, who entered the Premier League in August 2015 when he moved from Bayer Leverkusen to Tottenham, initially signed a five-year contract.
He struggled in the position competition with Argentina’s Young Gun Eric Lamela in his first season in the league, and went to Wolfsburg, Germany, just before moving to the next summer of 2016, but changing his mind and determining to challenge became the driving force behind Son Heung-min.
Son Heung-min broke the existing contract in the summer of 2018 and signed a new five-year contract until June 2023. Son Heung-min has been on a roll, winning the Premier League’s “Player of the Month” for the first time in Asia in the 2016-2017 season and receiving the second time, forcing Tottenham to raise his salary. In the summer of 2021, he also removed the existing contract and raised his salary to 18 billion won (estimated) to sign a third contract with Tottenham, which was set until the summer of 2025.
In fact, Son’s salary is not that high given his performance. He is currently ranked in the 40th place in the Premier League. Players who have shown little performance at Manchester United, including Marcus Rashford, Casemiro, Matthijs the Licht, and Antony, also earn more than 20 billion won to 30 billion won (approx.
In addition, Son Heung-min’s current contract reportedly has an option to extend the contract period by one year until 2026.
As a result, influential British newspapers reported on Tottenham’s exercise of the option to extend Son’s contract with a little more than a year left before the expiration of Son’s contract. If the option is exercised, Tottenham can use Son Heung-min for another year without raising his salary.
The names of young players who will compete with Son have been mentioned for some time. Even if Son plays for Tottenham in the 2025-2026 season, he intends to prepare for the summer after 2026 without Son through competition with young players.
The successor of Son Heung-min taken by Tottenham is Hakon Arnar Haralsson of the French Ligue 1 team, which is the Icelandic national team. Tottenham sent a scout to check his performance.
Earlier in September, Son Heung-min answered after being asked about the renewal of his contract. He drew attention by saying that he did not talk to the club. Looking at the answers alone, it is believed that he is in a great fight with Tottenham.
Son Heung-min said during the Tottenham fan forum in September, “We don’t know our future in football. I still have a contract period with Tottenham, and it’s already been 10 years since I played here. You can’t imagine how happy I would be at Tottenham. But our future in football is unknown, and I’m just focusing on this season. All I want is a win.”
“I want to see all of you smile even if I leave this club someday, and I want to see everyone talk about me as a legend,” he continued, adding that he hopes Tottenham fans remember him as a legend of the team even if he leaves Tottenham in any way.
Tottenham has already received a huge transfer fee offer for Son Heung-min from Saudi Arabia.
Son Heung-min says he will not go to Saudi Arabia, but how about shaking up his position by recruiting a competitor and at the same time suggesting to Son that he will re-engage with Tottenham immediately after his retirement? Tottenham thinks that Son can go to the Middle East in that way.
According to ESPN and others, Tottenham’s proposed transfer fee is 60 billion won to 100 billion won. There is no such big hit. You can also earn more than 50 billion won when you bring Son Heung-min at a low price, earn hundreds of billions of won, and send him.
Of course, Son Heung-min can also receive a big salary if he goes to Saudi Arabia, but if Tottenham receives a transfer fee, there is a possibility that the Saudi club will also cut Son Heung-min’s salary.
Son Heung-min has already been offered a total of 160 million euros and 238.3 billion won in Hanwha for four years at RT Hard, where Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema is active. Son Heung-min has shaken off twice the amount of his annual salary at Tottenham for 10 years so far, but Tottenham has offered an option to extend it by one year.
However, chances are high that this would mean a time when Son Heung-min breaks up with Tottenham without paying a transfer fee. Recently, Saudi Arabian clubs are also bouncing the abacus when recruiting star players.
Tottenham can send Son Heung-min next summer with a small transfer fee of 1 to 2 million euros. A case in point is that Chelsea will activate a one-year extension option that the club can exercise unilaterally like this Son Heung-min contract, 25 days before the deadline for the contract signed by former French national team Olivier Giroud in 2021, and then sell it to Italy’s AC Milan next month for a total of 2 million euros (about 3 billion won). 먹튀검증
What is important is that Son Heung-min is a thorough “Eul” in this situation. The one-year extension option can be exercised unilaterally by Tottenham, so Son Heung-min has to wait for the club’s disposition for now.
