The MLS team, LAFC, has shown interest in signing Tottenham striker Son Heung-Min, according to sources close to the situation.
The future of the 33-year-old player at the Spurs remains uncertain. The club opted to extend his contract for an additional year, until 2026, instead of negotiating new terms.
Tottenham’s new coach, Thomas Frank, has praised Son’s decade of contribution to the Spurs, but has not confirmed whether he will remain the club’s captain for next season.
In June 2023, it was revealed that Son received a lucrative offer from the Saudi team Al Ittihad, although he decided to stay at the club at that time, the country’s interest remains present.
The source indicates that LAFC has made it clear that they are willing to act if Son decides to leave Spurs this summer, and the club is open to allowing his departure.The conversations are expected to clarify Son’s situation, but the club’s pre-season tour of Hong Kong and Seoul could complicate the picture, given his extraordinary popularity in the region.
The club’s last match in Seoul is on August 3rd, before returning to Europe for the start of the Premier League season.
Tottenham’s victory in the Europa League final over Manchester United gave Son the opportunity to lift his first trophy for the club, after becoming the seventh player to reach 450 appearances with the Spurs, with 198 goal contributions in the Premier League, since his arrival from Bayer Leverkusen in 2015 for £22 million ($29.8 million).
Asked last week if Son had earned the right to decide his own future, Frank said: “It’s always complicated, situations like that… if that happens.
“At the moment I have a player who is fully committed and training well and will play tomorrow. If a player has been at a club for a long time, there will always be a decision that the club must make.
“Because there’s something in it if someone wants to leave at a certain stage… then there may be something there. But the club will always decide in the end. First of all, he’s here now. I’m not too worried. Let’s take that in five or six weeks. It will probably [be a question] that I’ll be asked the following week, so I’ll practice my answers. Right now, he’s here.”
