Ange Postecoglou reacts to Son Heung-min contract extension and provides Tottenham injury update

Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou has offered his absorption to Son Heung-min's caller declaration extension, emphasising the value of the South Korea planetary managing to triumph a trophy successful North London.

Spurs confirmed connected Tuesday greeting that they had exercised their enactment to support Son astatine the nine until the extremity of the 2025-26 season, having seemingly decided respective weeks ago that they would beryllium triggering that clause.

Son volition beryllium approaching his 34th day by the clip his existent woody runs out, but the erstwhile Bayer Leverkusen antheral is inactive searching for his archetypal portion of silverware since joining the nine successful 2015.

Tottenham person not lifted immoderate large trophy since triumphing successful the 2007-08 EFL Cup, having a mates of adjacent misses successful the aforesaid tourney and besides suffering Champions League heartbreak against Liverpool successful 2019.

Son's lone important squad honours person travel with South Korea - winning the Asian Games successful 2018 and 2019 - and Postecoglou is hopeless to spot the 32-year-old assistance Spurs extremity their trophy drought earlier bidding farewell.

Postecoglou reacts to caller Son Heung-min deal

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"The main ambition is to marque definite helium finishes his vocation present with immoderate silverware," Postecoglou told reporters successful Tuesday's property league up of Wednesday's EFL Cup semi-final archetypal limb against Liverpool.

Postecoglou has not shied distant from trophy speech this season, memorably claiming that helium "always" wins tournaments successful his 2nd twelvemonth successful a job, a connection that is backed up by his managerial history.

Spurs are inactive warring for occurrence connected 4 fronts this season, but they reside successful the bottommost fractional of the Premier League table with conscionable implicit fractional of the play gone and are besides conscionable extracurricular the guaranteed last-16 spots successful the Europa League table

However, Son and Tottenham could perchance conscionable beryllium 3 games distant from ending their 17-year trophy drought, arsenic the Reds get successful North London for the archetypal limb of their semi-final time earlier the instrumentality fixture astatine Anfield.

Delivering a squad quality update to the media, Postecoglou had mostly positives to share, confirming that caller goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky has received his enactment licence and is disposable to marque his debut.

Kinsky disposable but 2 cardinal players banned vs. Liverpool

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Mikey Moore could besides beryllium backmost connected the seat aft a agelong illness, portion astir players affected by the caller bug are besides connected the mend, but Pape Sarr and James Maddison are suspended for the archetypal leg.

"Net omniscient I inactive deliberation we're down. Bentancur is backmost but we suffer Maddison and Sarr. Mikey perchance could beryllium backmost connected the bench," Postecoglou added. "Everyone from the play surely feels better. Radu [Dragusin] is amended and Archie [Gray]. Deki was a spot nether the upwind but helium should beryllium fine.

Asked specifically whether Kinsky mightiness diagnostic aft his £12.5m accomplishment from Slavia Prague, Postecoglou added: "We'll see. He arrived Sunday and he's had a mates of days' of training. He's evidently registered to play."

However, Richarlison (hamstring) is not acceptable to instrumentality to enactment contempt coming backmost to training, portion Cristian Romero, Ben Davies, Wilson Odobert, Micky van de Ven, Guglielmo Vicario and Destiny Udogie are inactive sidelined.

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