Tottenham made a contract decision for Son Heung-min before the final year of the deal

Tottenham Hotspur are set to tie up Son Heung-min for an extra year, ruling out the club captain's exit door this summer.

Son took on a new level of commitment in 2023/24 following the departure of Harry Kane and scored 17 Premier League goals to match his second best season in the competition.

But the South Korean icon will be 32 before next season kicks off, with his age enough to keep speculation about a move to the Saudi Pro League burning.

Son will enter the final 12 months of the long-term deal he signed in 2021, however Athletic he writes that a one-year option to extend it until 2026 will be triggered. It means that the new expiry date of his contract will be moved to a week before his 34th birthday.

Last summer, Son made it clear that he had little interest in moving to Saudi Arabia.

“If I wanted to go there, I wouldn't be here!” said the player in a press conference when Tottenham was on a pre-season tour in Australia. “I love playing football. Obviously, money is also important, but I'm dreaming [of] to play [in the] The Premier League.”

This season was the first of Son's time at Spurs that the team did not play European football. An improved fifth-place finish, from a disastrous eighth 12 months ago, translates into qualification for the newly revamped Europa League.

Son previously played a key role in Tottenham's greatest European tour of modern times as the team, then under Mauricio Pochettino, reached the 2019 Champions League final with a stunning semi-final comeback against Erik ten Hag's Ajax.

“I think I'm the type of guy who never wants to quit and who tries to work as hard as possible until the end result of the game. I think if you don't believe, these things don't happen,” he told 90 min with a special recent oral history of the second leg of the crunch.

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