{"id":185450,"date":"2024-05-31T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/31\/tottenham-make-son-heung-min-contract-decision-ahead-of-deals-final-year\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:11:10","slug":"tottenham-make-son-heung-min-contract-decision-ahead-of-deals-final-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/31\/tottenham-make-son-heung-min-contract-decision-ahead-of-deals-final-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham make Son Heung-min contract decision ahead of deal\u2019s final year \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Tottenham Hotspur are set to tie down Son Heung-min for an extra year, virtually erasing the possibility that the club captain could head for the exit door this summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Son took on a new level of responsibility in 2023\/24 following Harry Kane\u2019s departure and scored 17 Premier League goals to match his second best single season tally in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>But the South Korean icon will turn 32 before next season begins, with his age enough to keep the speculation over a potential move to the Saudi Pro League burning.<\/p>\n<p>Son has will soon enter the last 12 months of the long-term deal he signed back in 2021, but\u00a0<em>The Athletic<\/em>\u00a0writes that a one-year option to extend it until 2026 will be triggered. It means the new expiration date of his contract will be pushed to a week before his 34th birthday.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/01hz5m72tgqk1s0mew7h.jpg\" alt=\"Son Heung-min\" title=\"Son Heung-min\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Son finished 2023\/24 as Tottenham\u2019s top scorer for first time \/ Vince Mignott\/MB Media\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>Last summer, Son emphatically revealed he had little interest in moving to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I wanted to go there, I would not be here!\u201d the player said at a press conference during Tottenham\u2019s pre-season tour of Australia. \u201cI love playing football. Obviously money is also important but I dream [of] playing [in the] Premier League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This season was the first of Son\u2019s time at\u00a0Spurs\u00a0that the club did not play European football. An improved fifth place finish, up from a disastrous eighth 12 months ago, translates into qualification for the newly reformatted Europa League.<\/p>\n<p>Son previously played a significant part in Tottenham\u2019s great European adventure of modern times when team, then under Mauricio Pochettino, reached the Champions League final in 2019 with a dramatic semi-final comeback against Erik ten Hag\u2019s Ajax.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m the type of guy who never wants to give up and tries to work as hard as possible until the last result of the game. I think when you don\u2019t believe, these things don\u2019t happen,\u201d\u00a0he told\u00a0<em>90min<\/em>\u00a0for a special recent oral history of the crunch second leg.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur are set to tie down Son Heung-min for an extra year, virtually erasing the possibility that the club captain could head for the exit door this summer. Son took on a new level of responsibility in 2023\/24 following Harry Kane\u2019s departure and scored 17 Premier League goals to match his second best single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tottenham make Son Heung-min contract decision ahead of deal\u2019s final year \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/31\/tottenham-make-son-heung-min-contract-decision-ahead-of-deals-final-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tottenham make Son Heung-min contract decision ahead of deal\u2019s final year \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tottenham Hotspur are set to tie down Son Heung-min for an extra year, virtually erasing the possibility that the club captain could head for the exit door this summer. 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