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Son Heung-min is Tottenham. Tottenham is Son Heung-min.

Son Heung-min is Tottenham. Tottenham is Son Heung-min.

[41]Jack Pitt-Brooke
Aug. 4, 2025Updated 5:05 am EDT

Son Heung-min’s Tottenham career ended in Seoul, but his 10-year journey with
them was completed in Bilbao.

That was where he lifted the Europa League trophy in May, the single moment
which suddenly made sense of everything else. All of the effort, all of the
loyalty, all of the goals, all of the tears. Justified by that night in
northern Spain and the celebrations that followed.

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And it was in Bilbao where Son’s embodiment of Tottenham — and Tottenham’s of
Son — became complete.

Nobody understood this before that final better than their head coach at the
time, Ange Postecoglou. And he used it as motivation.

“I made him a big focus of our Europa run because I thought he was symbolic of
where people saw the club,” Postecoglou tells The Athletic. “Obviously he’s an
outstanding player but was missing that key piece of success.”

Postecoglou told the players that victory against Manchester United would
change perceptions of both Son and the club in an instant.

The players went out and did it for Son, just as they did for Spurs. There was
no longer any distinction between the two.

It is rare to see that sort of unity between player and club. But that is what
Son reached over the course of his decade in north London. It is a profound
achievement, an unquestioning love, more so than anything won merely on the
pitch. His place in the history and memory of the club and their community is
deep, permanent and unambiguous.

“Sonny is Tottenham,” said an emotional James Maddison on Saturday, preparing
to play with his captain and close friend for the final time. “And Tottenham is
Sonny. It’s weird to think about Tottenham Hotspur without Son.”

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For the start of the story of Son and Tottenham, you have to go back not 10
years but 12. Back to 2012-13, when he was a 20-year-old at Hamburg, starting
to make an impression in the Bundesliga. It had been hard work establishing
himself in German football but people were starting to take notice of this
fast, graceful forward who was already starting to cut through teams.

Tottenham sent their former manager David Pleat over to watch the South Korean
in action, but he was not initially convinced. He thought Hamburg looked
terrible and Son, recovering from an injury at that time, did not look fit.
Still, Spurs were curious enough to open talks with Hamburg about a move.
Remember, this was the point when they were starting to think about life after
Gareth Bale, who joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2013. Young, dynamic
forwards were very much on their mind.

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Son first moved to Hamburg at the age of 16 (Lars Baron/Getty Images)

Despite Tottenham’s interest, it was another English club who got closest to
signing him from Hamburg. Mauricio Pochettino had only been Southampton manager
for a few months but knew that he needed more speed and goals in their forward
line for the following season. “Sonny represented exactly the profile that we
liked: dynamic, good on transitions, could play vertically, could play off both
sides,” Paul Mitchell, then Southampton’s head of recruitment, tells The
Athletic. “We wanted to play high pressing, high-octane football in and out of
possession. He was perfect.”

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So it was Southampton rather than Spurs who were front of the queue in summer
2013, but Son decided it was not the right time to try his luck in the Premier
League. He stayed in Germany, moving to Bayer Leverkusen.

Pochettino, of course, left Southampton for Spurs in summer 2014. Six months
later, Mitchell followed him. Pochettino and Mitchell knew they had an exciting
young team at White Hart Lane, but one that needed an extra cutting edge. They
remembered Son, now playing for a Leverkusen team whose style perfectly mapped
onto Pochettino’s own brand of pressing. “We never lost the idea of how well he
aligned to principles we wanted to build in our teams,” Mitchell says.

The fact that Son was shining in a team that put so much emphasis on running
and pressing was important, but so was his physical robustness. Over his two
years with Leverkusen, he only missed four matchday squads out of 94, and they
were all because of international commitments or suspensions.

In February 2015, Tottenham sent a scout to Leverkusen to watch a game against
Wolfsburg. In the first half, Kevin De Bruyne and Bas Dost ripped through
Leverkusen, building a 3-0 lead. The second half belonged to Son. He started by
nicking the ball from the hands of Diego Benaglio and rolling it in. For his
second goal, he sprinted after a long pass, took it down calmly, then lifted it
over Benaglio with the outside of his right boot. To complete his hat-trick,
Son cut in from the right and thumped a shot with his left foot through a busy
penalty area into the bottom corner.

Leverkusen lost 5-4 that day, Son’s hat-trick bested by Dost scoring four
times. But Spurs had seen enough. The scouting feedback to the club was not
just about those three goals, but his intangible qualities that had to be seen
up close: How relaxed he was in front of goal. The efficiency of his actions in
the final third. His two-footedness, but especially his unique capacity to
surprise opponents by getting unpredictable shots off from either side of the
goal.

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Leverkusen lost to Wolfsburg that day in 2015 but Son did enough to impress
Spurs (Bernd Thissen/Getty Images)

Tottenham had also been interested in West Bromwich Albion striker Saido
Berahino, but then learned of an issue between Leverkusen manager Roger Schmidt
and Son. “It gave us this little window of opportunity,” Mitchell recalls.
“Because we had done all the background checks, all the profiling, checking his
alignment to the style, we could move really, really quickly.” So fast, in
fact, that some Spurs staff were frantically Googling their new player’s name
on the day he signed.

On August 28, 2015, Son joined Tottenham for £22million ($29m at the current
rate). Mitchell is still proud of the deal: “That fee for a player of that
quality is maybe one of the best investments any of us have ever made in our
careers.”

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Kevin Wimmer still remembers Son’s first day at Spurs. Austrian defender Wimmer
had arrived at the start of that summer from Koln, Leverkusen’s local rivals.
But this was the start of a long friendship.

“On the first day, he was already always smiling,” Wimmer recalls, 10 years on.
“He knew that I spoke German, so from the first day on, we had a special
connection. You could just feel that he’s such an amazing character. He was so
nice to everyone — and to me — from the start.”

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This was an exciting summer at the club, a moment of rejuvenation for an
improving team. Pochettino and Mitchell had put together a group of hungry
young players who all looked like they would run through brick walls for their
new manager and new team-mates. The surprising thing, given what a difficult
first year Son ended up having, was how easy it looked at the very start.

On September 17, Tottenham hosted Qarabag of Azerbaijan in their opening Europa
League group-stage fixture. Son and a 19-year-old Dele Alli made their second
starts for the club that night. It felt like a window into Spurs’ future, and
the Korean was shining bright. He swept in an Andros Townsend corner for the
first goal of a 3-1 win. He scored a second a couple of minutes later from a
beautiful one-two with Dele. Three days later, Son started again, in the
Premier League, bursting down the left to score the only goal to defeat
visitors Crystal Palace. He looked like the Son of the Bundesliga already.

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Son celebrates his first goal for Spurs, against Qarabag (Scott Heavey/Getty
Images)

But this was a false dawn.

One week later, Son injured his plantar fascia, an important band of tissue on
the bottom of the foot, against Manchester City. And his debut season never
recovered. He did not make another start for Spurs for two months. He did not
score for them again until after Christmas. For the biggest league games, it
was clear that Pochettino wanted Erik Lamela, Dele and Christian Eriksen in the
three behind striker Harry Kane. Son only started another 10 league games all
season after that September injury. Three of them at the very end, the last two
when Tottenham’s title challenge was over and Leicester City were surprise
champions.

The big question over the second half of that season was not just whether Son
was playing, but whether he was even enjoying it. Nine years on, recollections
differ about this point. “He has such a positive mindset and attitude,”
remembers Mitchell, “coming in with a big smile, working hard, we never felt at
any time that he was ever even considering giving up.” But there were certainly
those at the club who feared Son’s head was dropping, that his application in
training was not as good as it could have been. And that he did not look as if
he was enjoying the challenge of trying to win his place back.

In August 2016, Son went to Brazil to play for his country at the Olympics.
When he came back to Spurs, he knew there was an offer for him to return to the
Bundesliga with Wolfsburg. On one level, it made sense: Son had already proved
that he could excel in the Bundesliga. And he had not been reluctant in the
past to move for the good of his career.

Son’s mind was made up. “I came close to leaving,” Son told London’s Evening
Standard newspaper in 2019. “I went to (Pochettino)’s office and told him I
didn’t feel comfortable and wanted to leave for Germany.” Fortunately,
Tottenham had other ideas. Partly because having invested £22million in him a
year earlier, they did not want to lose him on the cheap, even if there were
some internal doubts about him. But also because the football staff knew how
good he could be. Players like that — with that pace, quality, versatility and
attitude — do not come along very often. He would have been impossible to
replace at short notice.

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So Pochettino explained to Son, in that special way he had with players, that
the best solution was for him to stay and fight for his place in the team. “We
were clear with Son that he has to earn his right to play, as we tell
everyone,” Pochettino later recounted in his book, Brave New World. “He wanted
to leave after a bad year, but I told him that he was part of my plans and we
weren’t going to let him go on the cheap. He decided to stay.”

The uncertainty about Son’s future — combined with his participation in the
Olympics through the first two weeks of August — meant he was not involved in
Spurs’ start to the new season. It is hard to plan around someone who had
“almost both feet out of the door”, as one insider put it.

Son didn’t feature at all before the first international break began in late
August, in which he played in one of South Korea’s two World Cup qualifiers
that window then came straight back to England. But he trained so well on his
return that Pochettino told staff that he had to start their next league game —
away at Stoke City on September 10.

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Son kick-started his Spurs career at Stoke in September 2016 (Laurence
Griffiths/Getty Images)

It was an inspired choice. Son was electric, scoring twice, the second
beautifully curled into the top corner from the edge of the box, and setting up
another goal for Kane in a 4-0 win.

In a very real sense, this was the true start of his Tottenham career.

Two weeks later, he scored both as Middlesbrough were beaten, 2-1. Then he got
the goal in a 1-0 defeat of CSKA Moscow in the Champions League. Five days
after that, Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City came to White Hart Lane. With Kane
injured, Son started as a false nine and ran City ragged, inspiring a 2-0 win
that showed the world how good he and this Spurs team could be.

So was there ever any real doubt?

“We had to be patient and accept the noise, because it was a fair early
reflection,” Mitchell says. “But we had done the work. We had seen how he had
been in the Bundesliga. We knew the quality. We could feel it in the sessions.
We could see how dynamic he was, how intelligent, the finishing ability off
both sides. We were adamant: he will be a top player.”

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Looking back, the most crucial part of Son’s story is not that he came to
Tottenham in summer 2015. It was inevitable that he would have left Germany for
the Premier League at some point. Far more important was what happened in
summer 2016.

The fact that he considered giving up and waving goodbye to Spurs after one
difficult year, before staying and succeeding is far more interesting and
surprising. And significantly more decisive to his eventual triumph.

Both he and the club continued to reap the rewards for years to come.

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The remarkable thing about Son’s peak is how long it lasted.

It started in that autumn of 2016 and lasted for at least six years — maybe
even eight, depending on your view. During that time, he firmly established
himself as one of the best forwards in football.

There is very little new that can be said about how good Son was at his peak.
It was not just that he was fast, although when he hit top speed, few defenders
in the game could keep up. It was not just that his movement was good, although
there was barely an offside line he could not catch off-guard. It was not just
that he was a good finisher, although he would outscore his expected goals
figure by bigger margins than even Kane year after year. And it was not just
that he was two-footed, although Mitchell, who signed him, says he has never in
his life seen a better player with both feet.

It was all of these things in combination, all of it done with a grace and
efficiency which made Son look like a feat of engineering. He looked so
effortlessly smooth and elegant as he burst down the left, opened his body up
at full speed, and whipped the ball into the far corner. As he did so, he
radiated a sense of inevitability. One that could be felt by everyone in the
stadium. Including in the Tottenham dugout.

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Son and James Maddison enjoyed a briefly fruitful partnership (Marc Atkins/
Getty Images)

“When you think about players, particularly in the Premier League, who played
his position, the output he had of goals and assists was quite extraordinary,”
says Postecoglou. “He was as good a finisher as you could find from wide areas.
Even last year, there were times when Sonny breaks through on the left and puts
it in the bottom corner, across the goalkeeper. You know it’s a goal before
he’s even struck it.”

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But with Son it was about more than just the aesthetics or even just the
numbers (his 127 goals make him the Premier League’s joint-16th highest
scorer). Because his great strength at Tottenham was the importance of the
goals he scored.

During those peak Pochettino years, the feeling inside the club was that they
had three top players, three ‘number ones’ in their squad. There was Kane, the
ultimate high-volume goalscorer. There was Dele, whose unique talent meant that
he could break open the biggest games. And then there was Son, whose gift was
for the difficult matches, and the important goals — the openers and the
winners.

Just think back to the most memorable Son goals, and how much they mattered.

The 89th-minute winner at Watford as Spurs chased a top-four place, and
Champions League qualification, in his first season. The decider at Borussia
Dortmund in the Champions League in 2017. The opener against the same
opposition in the first leg of a last-16 tie in that competition in 2019. The
first ever official goal at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium against Palace later
that spring. The winner against City in a Champions League quarter-final first
leg six days later.

Best of all, the ultimate Son performance, was when Spurs went to the Etihad
Stadium to try to defend that one-goal lead.

City were all over them from the start and had already pulled level in the tie
when, in the seventh minute, a loose ball fell to Son on the edge of the box.
First touch, right foot, in off goalkeeper Ederson’s legs. Two minutes later,
after Lucas Moura broke down the right, Eriksen found him and he produced a
moment of pure Son genius: a perfect first touch away from Kyle Walker, opening
his body up, and then whipping the ball into the far top corner.

Everything good about Son was encapsulated in that moment: clinical, graceful,
in a moment with the highest possible stakes.

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Even after that, he kept getting better — and more decisive. He scored a
stoppage-time winner at Aston Villa in February 2020, the second of his two
goals that day, when playing with a broken arm, and the first goals in 2-0 home
defeats of City and Arsenal behind closed doors, due to the pandemic, that
autumn.

His best season of all was 2021-22. It started with Son getting the first goal
of the brief Nuno Espirito Santo era, another winner against City, and it ended
with him scoring 12 times in the last 10 league games as Antonio Conte’s Spurs
stormed past Arsenal to seal fourth, the Korean ending up sharing the Golden
Boot with Mohamed Salah of Liverpool on 23 Premier League goals.

Spurs fans will all have their own favourite Son moment. When he scored his
100th Premier League goal — becoming one of only 34 players to do so — in a win
over Brighton in April 2023, his friends chose to mark the achievement. Ben
Davies — Son’s long-time Tottenham team-mate and best friend — hosted a dinner
party at his house to celebrate.

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Son’s 100th Premier League goal was a trademark long-range effort (Mark Leech/
Getty Images)

And it’s not just Davies and Wimmer — Son has had an incredible bond with
dozens of the players he has shared a dressing room with at Spurs. It’s not
hard to see why.

When Tottenham went to South Korea in the 2022 pre-season, every member of the
travelling party arrived at their hotel to find personalised gifts in their
rooms from Son to thank them for coming to his homeland.

It was the same story when they went there again last year. Everyone on the
tour got gifts from Son’s personal brands. Even Postecoglou got a cap, shorts,
a T-shirt and some toiletries. He made sure to impress upon his squad the
importance of Son’s gesture.

“I would constantly tell the players, because we had a young group, that the
measure of any person is not always their achievements,” Postecoglou says.
“It’s about how they treat other people. Sonny didn’t have to do those things,
it’s his generosity. I could see that the players understood: giving back is
just as important as any accomplishments you make.

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“He was constantly doing that, constantly giving back. It was a great example
to everyone, myself included, that irrespective of how great a career you have
and how high the esteem you’re held in, it’s the way you treat people that’s a
greater measure than anything else.”

When Son was given gifts by adoring fans on such tours — and he got a lot — he
took time to say thanks and treasured every one of them, having them loaded
into a van to take home with him. 

This has always been the way with Son.

From the time in his first few months at Spurs when he organised and paid for a
big Korean banquet at the training ground for players and staff. Or how Son
would always invite Wimmer to his home after training, so that his mother could
cook for his team-mate. (“His mum is such a lovely person,” Wimmer says, “she
always took care of me, like I was also her son.”)

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Son shared a close bond with Wimmer and Walker in his early years at Spurs
(Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

Or just the little acts of kindness that he imparts every single day. His
generosity in meeting fans, recording videos for them, signing photographs
after training when everyone else has driven home, anything to brighten their
day. Anyone who knows Son or has worked with him will tell an identical story
of him being delighted to see them, asking how they are, how their family is.
People who have not seen Son for a long time will get messages out of the blue
checking in on them and their loved ones.

Which is why people who know Son say that, however impressive he is as a
footballer, he is even more impressive as a person. He is idolised by millions
but still sees himself in other people, and makes time for every single one.

“He is exactly as you see him,” says Postecoglou. “Sometimes, the public
perception of a person is a lot different to how they actually are. But with
Sonny, there was no difference in the way the public perceived him to how he
was in private.

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“The one thing about Sonny that people don’t understand is that he’s lived in a
goldfish bowl for pretty much the entirety of his career, he’s always had eyes
on him. To live in that sort of cauldron for as long as he has, and I doubt you
could find one person to say something negative about him, is just incredible.”

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If deciding not to leave Tottenham in summer 2016 was the making of Son, it was
another decision four years later that built his legacy.

The 2020-21 season was a strange time at Spurs. Jose Mourinho was in charge,
football was still being played behind closed doors due to Covid-19, and after
a strong start, the team went into a sharp decline. Kane already knew that City
wanted him, and at the end of that season he would try to escape there. Son was
28 then, and at his physical peak. He was good enough to play for any team in
the world. But it was at this point — when he could have done anything he
wanted — that he again decided to stay.

A new long-term contract was agreed that autumn, then announced in July 2021.
It was for another four seasons, which have turned out to be Son’s last four at
the club.

Kane finally got his move, to Bayern Munich, in 2023 — the summer Postecoglou
arrived as head coach. With Hugo Lloris also on his way out, it was time for a
new captain. And Postecoglou had a decision to make. “I thought the key thing
in looking for a leader was a unifier,” the Australian explains. “And this is
who Sonny is. He could literally sit at any table in the lunch room, whether it
was staff or players, and get a conversation going. That was going to be
important for us.

“His demeanour at the training ground, and the way he trained, was almost like
he was a first-year player every time he was out there. If your leaders are not
engaged, or lack enthusiasm, at any stage, that filters through to the whole
group. But he would not allow that to happen.”

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Son waves goodbye to the Tottenham fans with the Europa League trophy in his
arms (Justin Tallis/Getty Images)

In Postecoglou’s second season, Son’s last at Spurs, their captain struggled
with injuries. He only scored two league goals after Christmas. He looked like
he had lost some of his explosive pace, the burst that always gave him the
space to shoot. He was absent for the big games — Eintracht Frankfurt away in
the quarter-final’s second leg, both legs of the semi against Bodo/Glimt — on
Spurs’ way to Bilbao.

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But Postecoglou still knew how important Son was going into that final. Even
though he knew his skipper was not fit enough to start the game, and that
Richarlison had proven how useful he could be playing on the left. So
Postecoglou reminded his players of Son’s significance, as the living
representation of the club. Lifting that trophy would change perceptions of
him, just as it would of Tottenham as a club.

“If we can elevate Sonny to a level above some of the best players that have
ever played for this club by winning something and having him lift a trophy,
we’re all going to be part of something special,” Postecoglou told his players.
“We’re going to be part of his legacy.”

This is why the images at the end of the match, with Son overwhelmed by
emotion, were so powerful. The fact he had stayed through the hard times made
his eventual triumph, leading Spurs to the promised land, even more emphatic.
His journey was Tottenham’s journey. His vindication was Tottenham’s
vindication. His tears were Tottenham’s tears.

Few players get to leave after a moment this perfect or this fulfilling. His
10-year arc at Spurs was complete. But even fewer players deserve the perfect
ending like Son did.

Because he embodied the joy of football played well, the shared thrill as he
burst past a defender, the graceful way he found the corner of the net. But
also because he embodied the joy of people. He never hid his emotions on the
pitch, or his love for his team-mates or colleagues or the fans who supported
him.

When he scored, or Spurs won, he radiated happiness, as if he felt he was the
luckiest man in the world to be getting these goals for this team. And he
wanted fans to share that luck and share that joy with him, too.

Additional reporting: Charlie Eccleshare, Jay Harris, Dan Kilpatrick

(Top photos: Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton)
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