Son Heung-Min may or may not be a Tottenham Hotspur player when Spurs kick off the Premier League season in August, and that hasn’t been decided yet. But now it sure seems like we know what one of the options is. Ben Jacobs and Tom Bogert are reporting that Los Angeles FC (LAFC) are “advancing talks” to bring Son from the Premier League to MLS this summer, though naturally any move would take place after Spurs’ preseason tour to Asia.
So this rumor is not new — we’ve known about LAFC’s interest in Sonny
for a few weeks now. What is new is that the club is now in active negotiations. That not only says that LAFC have interest in Son (lots of clubs probably have interest in Sonny) but that Spurs are potentially open to whatever small transfer fee LAFC would be willing to spend for him.
That’s significant, and probably plays into Spurs’ willingness to let Sonny determine how he wants to end his own career. The above report states that Son would prefer an MLS move to one to Saudi Arabia, and that talks will take place between Son and Thomas Frank to go over his role in Spurs’ squad this coming season. There’s willingness to keep Sonny and let him depart on a free transfer when his contract expires, but Spurs wouldn’t stand in his way should he want to leave now for a new opportunity on a different continent.
The article states that LAFC are close to agreeing personal terms with Son as a Designated Player. Meanwhile, the unnamed Saudi Arabian club would offer as much as $40m for Son, should he decide he was willing to play football in the Middle East for a couple of years.
I don’t think we have enough information to know what Sonny wants to do or what he will do; that will likely emerge when the club gets back from South Korea. I do think if Spurs wanted to prioritize maximizing profit on Sonny’s transfer fee then there’s little chance they’d consider a move to MLS, which has a league-wide record transfer fee of $22m. LAFC has never spent more than $11.4m for a player before.
But as I’ve stated before, Sonny has done something no other Tottenham club captain has done in nearly five decades — delivered a European title. He is forever a club legend, deserves a statue outside of White Hart Lane, and has earned the right to make whatever decision he feels is the best for his career. We’ll probably know before too long what he wants to do.
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