Heung-min son: Captain of Tottenham Hotspur leaves the Premier League as an icon-but how do the spurs replace him? | Football news
“Cheers, her’s crying” was the same that has constantly followed Heung-Min Son’s career in Tottenham. Instead, those around the South Korean were in tears last week.
While the full -time whistle went to Seoul on Sunday, the emotions spread while the Tottenham captain appeared for the last time in the colors of the Spurs.
Ben Davies, who appointed son as godfather of his child Ralph, was crying at his friend. Other teammates have shown their emotions – but even Spurs’ media staff cried on the ground, in front of the 33 -year -old man who begins his new adventure at Lafc.
Except that his was not only the captain and leader of Tottenham. “Sonny is Tottenham and Tottenham is Sonny,” said James Maddison before the final of his teammate. In a decade at the club, his son is held in the hearts of the Spurs: players, staff, supporters – and even rivals.
First, there was his son the player – and he left the Premier League as one of the great of all time to honor him from abroad. “One of the best players who has ever played in the Premier League as an addicted, in my opinion,” said Thomas Frank as a son announced his departure.
The figures make it difficult to challenge this. If Mohamed Salah and Kevin de Bruyne are the two players outside the Premier League in the last decade, then his could argue that he is in the third or fourth place on this list.
His even put an end to his premier League career with more contributions to goals than by Bruyne, who spent exactly the same number of years in England in high flight as the South Korean.
And the objectives that the son has marked over the years were also memorable. He marked the first in the new era of Spurs in the Tottenham Hotspur stadium against Crystal Palace. His winning campaign in gold was signed with a double in Norwich, who saw the fans of the house give him a standing ovation on the ground.
There was also nine strikes from the northern derby against Arsenal.
In Europe, he scored twice in the first 10 minutes in Manchester City in a draw of the Champions League in the second row in April 2019. Harry Kane had disappeared with injury that night, but his son intensified and the Spurs made a memorable manner on the goals outside.
The sound partnership with Kane was another key factor in the modern spurs era. The duo struck record heights in northern London.
The Premier League has experienced many memorable partnerships over the years. Shearer and Sutton, Henry and Bergkamp, Silva and Aguero, Drogba and Lampard. But none was a better double act than Son and Kane.
The pair combined for 47 goals in the Premier League, crushing the Drogba record and Lampard of 11 strikes. Their 14 configurations for each other in the 2020/21 campaign are also an unequaled premier feat.
If it was not for the 32 goals set up by his son, Kane would not be the record scorer of all spurs. This proves how instrumental the South Korean was for the Spurs era, but also to their star attacker.
How Kane and his son remember the spurs individually create a debate. Yes, Kane was the generational scorer who dismissed the team to succeed. But the son will always remain in memories like the one who has remained. The one who would later guide the team to the trophy he wanted, in the Europa League of this year.
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In fact, his son was the only member of the 2019 Champions League final team who was at the club last season. He is the only one in this team, Mauricio Pocsettino included, who delivered a trophy for the club.
In the midst of rumors on the future of Kane for years, his son never approached the board of directors of the Spurs by asking for a way to go out himself. He probably had all the rights, since he scored 40 goals in the Premier League during the two seasons on each side of the summer where Kane was chased by Manchester City. But his commitment to the Spurs has always resonated well with the club’s fans base.
‘He’s nice, so nice’
This brings us to the next part of the inheritance of the son who leaves with him. Human beings.
The son has always had a humility about him as soon as he entered the spurs. The winger initially suffered from the country’s evil when he arrived in England. “He had a hard time setting up,” Pocsettino said in 2016.
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The narrow friendships he knotted with Davies, Dele Alli and defender Kevin Wimmer helped him, and the role of Pochettino was also important.
The first full season of sound in England did not behave well, so much so that the South Korean asked to leave in the summer of 2016.
Pochettino replied by putting his son in the team for the 2016/17 campaign, his son immediately reimbursed the trust. He dismissed Spurs at their best start of a season in 50, before helping them finish as finalists in this term.
“I am impressed by him as a man as well as as a footballer,” added Pocsettino. “She is a very nice person and how he works is impressive.” Others in the media would also discover it.
Any interview with his son would see the South Korean shake the hand of each person in the room. He always seemed to understand the sacrifices that people made to meet him. Even when he arrived in Los Angeles this week, his son spent more than an hour to sign autographs.
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Hundreds of fans gathered to say goodbye to his when he left South Korea for Los Angeles before his moved to Lafc
There was also the story of the moment when his son came for the first time in England and saw that a neighbor organized a family birthday party. He showed up to introduce himself – and he would then forge close relationships with those who lived around him, regardless of their history.
It would not be different when his replaced Kane as captain of the Spurs. He would prove to be a resonance box for any new player, his generosity extending to help others to settle. After all, his son fought.
“He’s nice, so nice,” Pape Sarr told Sky Sports at his first season at the club. “Even if I say something wrong [in English]He tries to understand it to make me comfortable.
“Since the first day I met him, we have continued. We have a good friendship, he helps me a lot and gives advice on the field and I really appreciate it and he is one of my favorites in the team.”
But his son would not be more popular than in his native South Korea. The fate of the striker to the club allowed the Spurs to draw on the nation in East Asia on the commercial level. There, his son is considered a rock star.
It was even seen in England, with South Korean flags not only in each Tottenham match – but a large number of supporters in the country would even be a queue outside the club’s training field, just for an overview of their hero.
Spurs may have recovered the vast majority of 22 million pounds sterling that the club paid him in 2015, but his son paid for these costs a long time ago. He left a unique presence on the Spurs team during his decade at the club.
Nothing more than being the player to lift the trophy to end the 17 -year -old drought. The perfect end.
How do the spurs replace the son?
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Look at his son announce that he will leave Tottenham Hotspur after 10 years at the club. Warning: Flash photography
Although the presence of his as a leader takes a certain replacement, how the team will fulfill their contributions to the objective will be an immediate concern for head coach Thomas Frank.
Even during the last sound season, which saw him plunge into the levels for the first time in a Spurs shirt, he has always recorded 17 goals and aid the mandate. No Spurs player has succeeded.
There is also a broader context. The second in this list was James Maddison, who could miss the start of the campaign after being stretched in the last sound match in Seoul against Newcastle. Dejan Kulusyvski, who obtained 15 contributions to goals the last mandate, also returns to fitness after knee surgery in May.
The Spurs recruited Mohammed Kudus from West Ham this summer, but the attack will still have to strengthen.
Frank’s interest in No. 10 is obvious through the failed pursuit of Morgan Gibbs-White, which has been the subject of a 60 million sterling pound approach from the Northern London club.
The injuries to Maddison and Kulusvski reinforced the need for a player in this position, but will a winger have to replace the son?
Frank was shy on this subject in South Korea, suggesting that an internal replacement is more likely by Brennan Johnson, Wilson Odobert or Mathys Tel, that the Dane admitted during the pre-season tour is more an winger than an attacker.
With Cristian Romero who put himself as a captain, how the Spurs replace the son could be one of the main discussion points when they start a new era under Frank.
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