OFFICIAL: Tottenham exercise option to extend Heung-Min Son's contract to keep him at the club until 2026
Tottenham have exercised the option to extend Heung-Min Son's contract, allowing him to stay at the club for another 12 months until June 2026.
The South Korean striker and club captain was due to expire in June, meaning the club were at risk of losing him on a free transfer at the end of a ten-year spell in North London since he arrived in 2015 came from Bayer Leverkusen.
Barcelona were among the clubs rumored to be interested in signing him this summer, but the 32-year-old will now remain at Tottenham for at least another year.
Son has long been the highest-scoring Asian player in Premier League history and is the third top scorer among players still in the competition, behind Jamie Vardy and Mo Salah.
He has achieved double figures in the top flight in each of the past eight seasons and shared the Golden Boot with Salah in 2022, but has found form harder to find this season. He has scored just five goals so far and two in his last eleven. Appearances in the Premier League.
The club statement:
We are pleased to announce that we have exercised the option to extend Heung-Min Son's contract, which now runs until the summer of 2026.
After joining the club in August 2015, 32-year-old Sonny has become a global star and a modern-day star for Tottenham Hotspur during his time with us.
Since he came over from Bayer Leverkusen almost ten years ago, our number seven with Lilywhite has gone from strength to strength. He made 431 appearances (ranking 11th in our all-time highest appearances list) and scored 169 goals – the fourth most in the club's history. .
Appointed club captain in August 2023, the South Korean international has certainly cemented himself in our history by scoring a number of iconic goals on key occasions for the Club.
Sonny scored his first goals in our colors in September 2015 in a Europa League match against Qarabag on his debut at White Hart Lane, and scored the first ever goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium against Crystal Palace in April 2019. before following it up with the first ever Champions League goal at our world-class home the following week, striking against Manchester City.
He was part of our squad that reached the UEFA Champions League final for the first time in 2019 and the following December he stunned the world with an incredible solo strike against Burnley, carrying the ball more than 80 yards before crossing for the South went home. Stellage. A year later, that goal won the FIFA Puskas Award, making Sonny the first Asian player ever to receive the iconic award.
In 2021/22 he had his best goalscoring season yet as he won the Premier League Golden Boot with his 23 goals helping us return to the Champions League.
Now in the Premier League's top 20 all-time scorers with 125 goals to his name – the second highest return of any Spurs player, he broke the Club's long-standing Premier League assist record this season with his 68th on December 5. -0 win over Southampton.
As captain of his country, he has made 131 appearances for South Korea to date, finding the net 51 times and featuring for his country at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups.
Voted AFC Asian International Player of the Year four times, he won gold at the 2018 Asian Games, while reaching the Asian Cup final with Korea in 2015.
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