{"id":29063,"date":"2025-01-07T11:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/?p=29063"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:43:31","slug":"tottenham-extend-son-heung-min-contract-by-further-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/tottenham-extend-son-heung-min-contract-by-further-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Extend Son Heung-Min&#8217;s Contract By Further Year To Avoid Losing Him On A Free This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tottenham have triggered a one-year extension in Son Heung-min&#8217;s contract to keep him at the club until the summer of 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Son Heung-Min: Tottenham Trigger One-Year Extension In Captain&#8217;s Contract<\/h2>\n<p>The Spurs skipper was set to become a free agent this summer. Son Heung-min entered the final six months of his deal on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/son-heung-min-transfer-news-barcelona\/\">Barcelona were reportedly interested in signing the South Korean<\/a> superstar. However, Spurs have now extended Son&#8217;s contract, ruling out the possibility of losing him for nothing at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are delighted to announce that we have exercised the option to extend Heung-Min Son\u2019s contract, which will now run until the summer of 2026 \ud83e\udd0d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1876569881711431906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on the club&#8217;s official website, Spurs said: &#8220;We are delighted to announce that we have exercised the option to extend Son\u2019s contract, which will now run until the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having joined the club in August 2015, Sonny, 32, has become a global star during his time with us and a modern-day great for Tottenham Hotspur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Son: A Modern-Day Tottenham Great<\/h2>\n<p>Since joining the club in 2015 from Bayer Leverkusen, Son has scored 169 goals in 431 appearances across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Son was part of the side that finished runners-up in the 2018-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/how-does-the-new-uefa-champions-league-format-work\/\">UEFA Champions League<\/a> and in the EFL Cup in 2020-21.<\/p>\n<p>Most famously, Son won the 2020 FIFA Puskas Award after his stunning solo effort against Burnley in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportscasting.com\/uk\/news\/premier-league-barclays-era-deep-dive\/\">Premier League<\/a> fixture in the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<p>Son also won the Golden Boot in 2021-22 and has landed the Player of the Month award on four separate occasions. 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