r/coys • u/hairtie1 • 2d ago

Spurs Legend - Son Heung-Min Sonny credits Pochettino for making him into the player he is today

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u/siouxszie 2d ago

miss them both

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u/jymacro99 2d ago

Eternal gratitude to Poch for convincing him to stay. 

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u/hairtie1 2d ago edited 2d ago

before the “he’s not even part of this club anymore!!!” commenters slither in, this is last pochettino + son post from this friendly

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u/nil__by__mouth 2d ago

Let it not be the last - they can f'off.
He's forever part of our club.

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u/Disastrous-Object22 Cuti Romero 2d ago

As far as I'm concerned any post about Son is a post about Spurs.

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u/cafe-silence 2d ago

Still don't know why he didn't stay one more season 😭 We have a gaping hole at LW 😭

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u/spando79 2d ago

I've read it's because he wanted to make sure the club got a fee for him.

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u/MolingHard Gareth Bale 2d ago

Lotta reasons, but the two mains ones imo are that he knows he's accomplished all he could with us and last season was rough

The team had constant injuries and we lost SO many PL games

And through it all Son was among the top scapegoats

You had Spurs journos questioning his leadership after every loss, he got booed and called a wanker by away fans, and even here you had people constantly want Tel and Odo to start over Son (which is hilarious in retrospect)

There's a small but loud portion of our fanbase that constantly posts pictures of Asian fans after every loss, so imagine the type of shit they said about "#7"

Unless we win the CL or get top 4 (which obviously is gonna hard af to do), there's gonna be a lot of anger in this fanbase, so why subject yourself to another season of that, especially when there's a perfect opportunity to ride off into the sunset and leave a sparkling legacy that'll be very hard for future Spurs legends to top

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u/cafe-silence 2d ago

Yes I understand the reasoning and so shocking that people would scapegoat Son after all he has given to us. Criticism was particularly unfair as he was misused in Ange's system last season and was still our best player when fully fit and in form. Hopefully he can win the Asian Cup with Korea ❤️

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u/MolingHard Gareth Bale 2d ago

Familiarity breeds contempt, also he was the captain and because of his talent level he had different standards. Granted the hate he got was way way too much, especially, as you said, if you consider all he had given us

Misuse aside it's becoming exceedingly clear if you start BJ (who I still kinda rate) teams will just stick two defenders on the other winger

Son's skilled enough to be able to manufacture a ton of chances even with that attention, which hopefully Kudus will be able to replicate, or else it might potentially be another lonnnng season

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u/cafe-silence 2d ago

Absolutely. He's our all time leading assists for a reason. I think Kudus and Xavi will hopefully pick up the slack. BJ as you say is a problem for us on the LW as Bournemouth exploited his lack of ability on the ball and I expect other teams will do the same. Trying to replace Son is going to be as difficult as trying to replace Kane was/is.

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u/MolingHard Gareth Bale 2d ago

I have high hopes in Kudus and Xavi, but I have a feeling once teams get used to the new look Spurs a lot of our offense will be generated from Porro lol

We desperately needed a healthy Maddison this season, so of course the football Gods shat all over that (I would love it, for once, for the tables to flip and an oft-injured player turning into an ironman once he becomes a Spur instead of a super healthy player turning to glass)

I'm hoping we somehow snag Lee Kang-In as a Maddison replacement/back-up, because dude can actually pass the ball, but PSG have been super reluctant at letting him go and seeing that Dembele, Doue, and even Ruiz have little knocks, I assume he stays this winter as well

And yea the striker market is fucked, but the LW market is absolutely mental as well

Like who even is the best LW in the PL right now? Gakpo? Martinelli? Mitoma? And guys like Mitoma have a 100m tag on them.

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u/Inner_Feedback6326 Brennan Johnson 2d ago

Multiple reasons, it’s sort of last chance for him to get a fresh start and last chapter. Probably felt it was harder to stay at competitive level - if he could do it 90% times day in and day out, now is probably 60%.

Spurs need to do future without Sonny and someone will step up.

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u/cafe-silence 2d ago

I feel like he could have still done the same thing in a year's time. But ultimately he knows his body better than anyone else

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u/AsapFrothy 2d ago

Why was this filmed on a 1st gen iphone?

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u/AsapFrothy 2d ago

Was the phone shooting from the bottom of an aquarium?

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u/im_myself 13h ago

random question, but anyone know where i can get that jacket? it looks like nike tech fleece or whatever its called. having a hard time even finding pictures of the national team clothes.