{"id":33096,"date":"2020-11-04T14:25:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T08:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/?p=33096"},"modified":"2020-11-04T14:25:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T08:55:59","slug":"tottenham-eager-to-hand-heung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/tottenham-eager-to-hand-heung\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham eager to hand Heung-min Son new contract"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur want to reward Heung-min Son with a new and improved contract for his spectacular form in the present campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Spurs are confident of tying the South Korean international in a new deal before 2021 which will see him earn a similar pay-packet to star striker Harry Kane.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Both <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Son_Heung-min\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heung-min Son<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/category\/football\/football-players\/harry-kane\/\">Harry Kane<\/a> have hit the ground running this season, with <a href=\"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/category\/football\/football-teams\/tottenham-hotspur\/\">Tottenham<\/a> currently being third in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/category\/football\/football-competitions\/premier-league\/\">Premier League<\/a> table, just two points behind leaders Liverpool.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>While Son has eight goals and two assists to his name in the Premier League in the present campaign, Kane has found the back of the net six times, in addition to setting up eight more.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>As a result, Spurs have plundered in 18 goals in seven Premier League matches this season \u2013 the highest in the division.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">New deal could see Heung-min Son earn similar to Harry Kane<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Harry Kane, Tottenham\u2019s top earner, is thought to be on wages of around \u00a3200,000 a week, before bonuses.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>And according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/sources-joe-lewis-green-lights-mega-deal-spurs-in-talks-to-agree-contract-by-1-jan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Football Insider<\/a>, Spurs are keen to hand Heung-min Son a salary similar to Kane&#8217;s as the South Korean is an integral part of Jose Mourinho\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Tottenham want to hand Son a new long-term deal before the year ends, with the 28-year-old\u2019s present contract set to run until 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last time out in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/premierleague?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@premierleague<\/a>&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#THFC<\/a> \u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COYS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#COYS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H2WgvWEmZ4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/H2WgvWEmZ4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1322855274244378625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>According to the report, the new and improved contract could see Heung-min Son earn \u00a3200,000-a-week basic wage, with performance-related bonuses further increasing the salary.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Son has been a vital part of Tottenham\u2019s set-up since joining the Premier League outfit from Bayer Leverkusen in the summer of 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Spurs will next take on Ludogorets in the Europa League tomorrow before facing West Brom in a Premier League clash on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/erling-haaland-tipped-to-join-liverpool\/\">Erling Haaland tipped to join Liverpool<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham are confident of agreeing a new and improved deal for Heung-min Son before the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":33099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,5501],"tags":[921,6223,4890,4891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}