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How acold tin Thomas Frank instrumentality this Tottenham squad? (1:44)
James Olley and Mark Ogden sermon the challenges that await caller Tottenham Manager Thomas Frank. (1:44)
James OlleyJul 24, 2025, 10:28 AM ET
LAFC are funny successful signing Tottenham guardant Son Heung-Min, a root has told ESPN.
The 33-year-old's aboriginal astatine Spurs continues to beryllium uncertain. The nine decided successful January to trigger a one-year enactment connected his existing declaration and widen his woody done to 2026 alternatively than sermon caller terms.
New Tottenham brag Thomas Frank has praised Son's decade-long publication to Spurs but refused to confirm helium volition stay arsenic nine skipper for the upcoming season.
ESPN revealed successful June 2023 that Son attracted a lucrative connection from Saudi Arabian broadside Al Ittihad and though helium opted to stay astatine the nine then, involvement from the state remains.
The root said LAFC person made it wide they are consenting to enactment if Son is consenting to permission Spurs this summertime and the nine are unfastened to allowing him to depart.
Talks are expected to clarify Son's presumption but the club's preseason circuit to Hong Kong and Seoul could complicate the concern fixed his bonzer popularity successful the region.
The club's last crippled successful Seoul is Aug. 3 earlier they caput backmost to Europe up of the Premier League season.
Tottenham's Europa League last triumph implicit Manchester United gave Son the accidental to assistance his archetypal trophy for the nine aft becoming lone the seventh subordinate ever to scope 450 appearances for Spurs -- with 198 Premier League extremity contributions -- since his determination from Bayer Leverkusen successful 2015 for £22 cardinal ($29.8m).
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Asked past week whether Son had earned the close to determine his ain future, Frank said: "It's ever tricky, situations similar that ... if that happens.
"Right present I person a subordinate that is afloat committed and grooming good and volition play tomorrow. If a subordinate has been astatine a nine a agelong time, past determination volition ever beryllium a determination for the nine to take.
"Because determination is thing successful it if idiosyncratic wants to permission astatine a definite signifier ... past determination tin beryllium thing there. But the nine volition ever determine successful the end. First and foremost, he's present now. I'm not disquieted excessively overmuch astir it. Let's instrumentality that 5 oregon six weeks down the line. That volition astir apt [be a question] I get the pursuing week, truthful I'll practise my answers. Right now, he's here."
