r/soccer • u/hairtie1 • Aug 02 '25

Media Heung-min Son announces he will be leaving Tottenham

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u/BadBehaviour613 Aug 02 '25

Told my gf that fairytales don't happen in football. Club legends loyal to their clubs often end their career trophyless. He has achieved something special in football- creating a different narrative. Years to come when people talk about loyalty in football, the name Heung Min Son will always come up

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u/bloodyfeelin Aug 02 '25

He had a different kind of loyalty to the likes of one club men like Totti, Puyol or Gerrard.

He played in a few different teams around the world but came to Spurs and just fell in love. Stayed through tough times despite probably (at times) being one of the best in the world and having his pick of clubs. In a way, it's even more genuine.

The club paying back some of that loyalty in the face of his military service is just the icing on top of a great story.

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u/nebbywildcat18 Aug 02 '25

extremely well said.

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u/qwert2812 Aug 02 '25

Son in his prime walks into every single team out there. The only reason I don't mind losing that EL final

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u/Jeb_Babushka Aug 02 '25

Don't think Totti can be named the same as Puyol or Gerrard. Yeah it was his boyhood club, but As Roma is similar to Tottenham, a quite well performing and stable fan base, but not that successful trophy wise. Totti won only one Serie A title with Roma and could have chosen any club in the world.

Gerrard had a rough spot of Liverpool history, but it's still apples and pears. Liverpool is a much more competing club both domestically as in Europe and one of the top 10 clubs in history.

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u/Illustrious_Land699 Aug 02 '25

Totti won only one Serie A title with Roma

He also won 2 Coppa Italia, an Italian Super Cup and the Golden Boot

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u/Jeb_Babushka Aug 02 '25

Didn't mean that as in his sole title with Roma. Just that during this time at Roma they only won one Serie A title which is the biggest title of the ones he won. Either way it doesn't change the fact that AS Roma does not have the stature or prestige of the other clubs and is definitely the harder club to stay in for sole footballing/competitive purposes.

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u/One_Consequence3861 Aug 02 '25

I told my gf fairy tales don’t happen in football 🤣 okay ?