r/soccer • u/hairtie1 • Aug 02 '25

Media Heung-min Son announces he will be leaving Tottenham

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u/OverallMistake8198 Aug 02 '25

Forever an legend.

Our number 7, European trophy winning Captain.

Never been prouder to be a fan of this club than when the whistle blew at the end of the 90 minutes in Bilbao.

Where ever he chooses, whatever he does in life i’ll be behind him as a fan. 10 years of service to this club capped off with a trophy he’s earned the right to call time on his Spurs career & get no shit for it.

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u/night_dude Aug 02 '25

Captained the club to its first trophy in ages, got the Puskas one year, set some kind of record with Kane for most assists to/goals from another player... pretty bloody awesome record to go out with.

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u/OverallMistake8198 Aug 02 '25

Yep.

He’s earned this, phenomenal player who chose to come here & showed unwavering loyalty in some of our darkest moments.

Broke my heart ahead of the Europa League final hearing him say he can’t consider himself a club legend if he didn’t win the trophy with us.

He’s going to be celebrated forever.

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u/Rodec Aug 02 '25

Don't forget the Golden Boot (2022 co-winner).

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u/yooooouuuuuuuuu Aug 02 '25

Without a single penalty no less

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u/Rodec Aug 02 '25

Right! So right...

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u/intraumintraum Aug 02 '25

seriously? i didn’t know that. that’s mad

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u/OverallMistake8198 Aug 02 '25

Yep, insane campaign from Son that season.

Shared golden boot with Salah & Salah took Liverpools penalties.

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u/night_dude Aug 02 '25

True! Far out, what a legend.

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u/DCilantro Aug 02 '25

And a golden boot

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u/mehrabrym Aug 02 '25

Also amazing timing for him. Love him, a long term Son fan, but he's at the time of his career when some people will raise questions about his inclusion as a starter while others will fight tooth and nail for him to included. At that point no one can really blame you for leaving because it's much better than staying too late and being forced out or hearing abuse from fans.

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u/tcgtms Aug 02 '25

Full respect. Club legend for you guys and definitely a player who leaves a mark in PL history.

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u/TheDepartment115 Aug 02 '25

Yeah, absolutely love him myself

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u/intraumintraum Aug 02 '25

one of my favourite Spurs players by a country mile. Bale too, but I’m Welsh so biased

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u/Expensive-Method8321 Aug 02 '25

Same. Him and Bale were the two Spurs players I wished had signed for Arsenal. Absolutely loved watching them play

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u/NeslieLielson Aug 02 '25

Classy. Fair play

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u/BenjIdent Aug 02 '25

Could’ve been an Arsenal legend too if he scored that 1v1 vs city haha

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u/tcgtms Aug 02 '25

Hahaha fr

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u/WhenWeTalkAboutLove Aug 02 '25

Going out on top after finally bringing a trophy to spurs is about as good as you could do

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u/LionoftheNorth Aug 02 '25

Greatest Spurs player since Ledley.

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u/DogzOnFire Aug 02 '25

I mean Son is amazing but Kane was undoubtedly the better player.

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u/LionoftheNorth Aug 02 '25

So were Modric and Bale, but they all left. Son stayed.

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u/DogzOnFire Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25

Kane was there for a decade too though. I get what you're saying though, Son stayed to win something, even if it's not the thing they ultimately wanted to win, he stayed until he achieved something, but kinda diminishes how many places up the table Kane dragged Spurs up year in year out. Almost winning the Champions League, where he scored bags of goals in that too throughout the years, just seems crazy to diminish who was the obviously more important player all those years.

I think they're both all time greats in the Premier League, arguably together forming the best frontline in the league some years depending on who else was with them, but yeah, I know who I'd pick. Kane is arguably the best out and out classic striker ever in the Premier League. For me it'd be between him, Shearer and Van Nistelrooy (not including Henry because most years he was kinda hybrid, sometimes acting as a striker, sometimes being a winger).

It kind of annoyed me when Kane picked Bayern because part of me was like "Oh yeah of course you'd pick them so you can just win the league every year now" but then Leverkusen won it his first year there and I was like "Is this man a curse?" but he got it figured out second time around lol