Son Heung-min celebrates 33rd birthday amid ongoing transfer...

The English Premier League (EPL) team Tottenham Hotspur congratulated Son Heung-min on his 33rd birthday.

With one year remaining on his Tottenham deal, Son Heung-min’s future is still up in the air.

Tottenham celebrated Son Heung-min’s birthday on the 8th (Korea time) by posting a message on the team’s official

social media platform (SNS) that said, “Congratulations to our captain, legend, Son Heung-min on his birthday.” Son

Heung-min is thirty-three years old today.

After departing Bayer Leverkusen in Germany in August 2015, Son Heung-min joined Tottenham, where he has

played for ten seasons. He has participated in 333 Premier League games, contributing 71 assists and 127 goals.

He guided Tottenham to the UEFA Champions League final in the 2018–2019 campaign. He won the FIFA Puskás

Award in 2020 for the world’s most beautiful goal of the year.

He became the first Asian player to share the EPL Golden Boot award in the 2021–2022 season with 23 goals. He

lifted a major tournament trophy for the first time in 17 years as captain of Tottenham in the 2024–2025 season,

helping the team win the UEFA Europa League.

Son Heung-min will be able to stay with Tottenham until the summer of 2026 after the club chose to exercise the

option to extend his contract by one year in January.

It is unclear, though, if Son Heung-min will stay with Tottenham. Restructuring the team under new coach Thomas

Frank requires the club to take into account its “commercial interests.”

Since the previous season, there have been rumours in the business that teams from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the

United States are interested in signing Son Heung-min.

Los Angeles (LA) FC, a Major League Soccer (MLS) team, has expressed interest in Son Heung-min as a replacement

for Olivier Giroud (Lille) after his move; however, British media outlets reported that Son Heung-min would turn

down the offer.

Starting at the end of this month, Tottenham will travel to Asia, stopping in Hong Kong before travelling to Korea in

early September. It has been determined that if Son Heung-min is transferred, it will probably occur after the tour

due to problems with the buyout clause.

“I think it is better to wait rather than say anything here since I still have one year left on my contract with

Tottenham,” Son Heung-min said in response to questions about his future following last month’s final game against

Kuwait in the third round of the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 North and Central America World Cup.

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