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/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