{"id":318119,"date":"2025-08-04T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318119\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T21:13:10","slug":"sources-son-heung-min-to-join-lafc-in-mls-record-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/318119\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Son Heung-Min to join LAFC in MLS record deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<p>Jeff Carlisle<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"author-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1344124_600x600_1-1.jpg&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Carlisle<\/p>\n<p>U.S. soccer correspondent<\/p>\n<ul>Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lizzy Becherano<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aug 4, 2025, 08:55 PM<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c9234cfc-835e-ba2d-c299-a202c5acace0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Korea<\/a> international <a data-player-guid=\"5b656277-1a69-399d-b3cc-7492c704d5e4\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/149945\/son-heung-min\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Son Heung-Min<\/a> is poised to sign with <a data-league-guid=\"d9d3698e-67b3-3ca5-9eb4-f23b8e19a464\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/league\/_\/name\/USA.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MLS<\/a> side <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"090bf04b-bafb-ac27-0cc5-3fee8a7375ca\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=18966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LAFC<\/a>, with an unveiling happening as soon as Wednesday, sources confirmed to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Son, 33, announced his departure from <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier League<\/a> side <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f987a4b2-f3f9-e7f6-eb7d-eda43893be5a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> last weekend, concluding a 10-year spell at the London club, though at the time he didn&#8217;t specify his next destination.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>But sources confirmed that Son is headed to LAFC for a fee of around $26 million. That figure would break the mark of $22 million <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"7d8fa0c3-e69d-bffb-5d8b-c45f998f4a2b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=18418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlanta United FC<\/a> spent last winter to acquire forward <a data-player-guid=\"b99016b1-51b3-99b1-1f59-97e63cc60388\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/242439\/emmanuel-latte-lath\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuel Latte Lath<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Son <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/45892348\/son-heung-min-hails-tottenham-hotspur-goodbye-perfect-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">played his final game for Spurs on Sunday<\/a> in Seoul in a friendly against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ec6b4352-98d3-424d-6214-778d79b47a01\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newcastle United<\/a>, a match that ended in a 1-1 draw. Son was given a standing ovation and a guard of honor from both sets of players as he was substituted in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>He told Spur&#8217;s website: &#8220;It was a perfect moment. Sharing these beautiful moments are something that I will never forget and I will always appreciate it &#8212; from the fans, the players and the gaffer. He understood my situation and was always on my side. He always listened to me and asked what I wanted to do. I have a huge respect and am very grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/37880582\/saudi-club-bid-30m-euros-tottenham-son-heung-min\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN reported<\/a> in June 2023 that Son attracted a lucrative offer from Saudi Arabian side <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"7920bbc0-09a3-bcd0-9bf4-a2ad9e6cac5f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=2276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Ittihad<\/a>, although he opted to remain at the club then. Now it looks as though LAFC have beaten out Al Ittihad for Son&#8217;s signature.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham&#8217;s Europa League final win over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manchester United<\/a> gave Son the opportunity to lift his first trophy for the club after becoming only the seventh player ever to reach 450 appearances for Spurs &#8212; with 198 Premier League goal contributions &#8212; since his move from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"483ec574-cb09-6d8f-e308-302d5d695d70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> in 2015 for \u00a322 million ($29.8 million).<\/p>\n<p>Son is set to join an LAFC side that currently sits in sixth place in MLS&#8217;s Western Conference, though the Black-and-Gold have at least two games in hand on the teams above them in the standings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.givemesport.com\/lafc-reach-agreements-with-spurs-and-son-heung-min-for-blockbuster-signing-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GiveMeSport<\/a> was the first to report Son&#8217;s move and the financial details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Carlisle Close Jeff Carlisle U.S. soccer correspondent Jeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-318119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114972564544764720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}