Lafc to sign his son Heung-Min for MLS-Record transfer costs, announce in the coming days

Lafc finalized the transfer of the Korean star her heung-min for a league record.

Its should be presented as a LAFC in the coming days, according to several sources informed of the agreement. Lafc will pay Tottenham in the $ 26.5 million (20 million pound sterling) district for the winger, sources said.

He immediately becomes the deepest player in the league in addition to Lionel Messi and adds a huge talent to a Lafc team who has always been a championship candidate. Its commercially commercial impact should also be enormous. South Korean supporters regularly gave themselves up for London to watch their playing. Journalists moved to London to cover the star player. Now it will be on a Los Angeles market which houses the largest Korean population in the United States (320,000), according to Pew Research Center. It is the largest population of this type outside Korea.

The 33 -year -old announced last week that he would leave Tottenham after a decade of service. At that time, its imposed itself as one of the most prosperous players in the history of the Spurs, a capped mandate by winning the UEFA Europa League in the spring. He played his last match for the club in his country of origin at the Seoul World Cup stadium.

“Before I start, I just want to share the information I decided to leave this club this summer,” said its day before the match. “It was the most difficult decision I made during my career. I spent 10 years in Tottenham. The main reason is that I have achieved everything I can in Tottenham. I need a new environment for a new challenge.

“I came to northern London when I was a child – 23 years old, a very young age, a boy who couldn’t speak English. I leave this club as a man. Thank you to all the fans of the Spurs who gave me so much love. It was as if it was my house.

“I think it’s a good time to leave. I hope everyone understands this and respect this. ”

Its scored 127 goals in the Premier League with Spurs and added 71 assists, one of the seven players ranking in the Top 20 in the two categories alongside legends like Wayne Rooney, Thierry Henry, Frank Lampard, Andy Cole, Teddy Sheringham and Mo Salah.

He finished as the fifth top scorer in Tottenham’s story with 173 goals all competitions and played more Premier League games than any other Spurs player with 333.

“Sonny is Tottenham,” said James Maddison on Saturday while he was preparing to play with his son for the last time. “And Tottenham is Sonny. It’s weird to think of Tottenham Hotspur without son.”

Record costs exceed the $ 22 million that Atlanta United paid for the Middlesbrough attacker Emmanuel Latte this winter. Espn And Givemesport Previously, record costs for sound.

The son who points out to the almost resemblance of the Messi effect, because more and more MLS teams seek to bring great players who can raise their respective clubs, as well as the league, to a wider audience. When Messi joined MLS, he brought two of his former teammates with him – Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets. A year later, another close friend and former teammate signed in Miami: Luis Suárez. But it was important to start seeing this momentum move away from Miami and through the league – and beyond the players on the bad side of 35.

This summer window has now seen three big players join, or agree to sign with the MLS teams.

Thomas Müller, Germany and the 35 -year -old Bayern legend is expected to join the Whitecaps in Vancouver. The teammate winner of the Messi World Cup, Rodrigo de Paul, 31, has just signed in Miami. And now, his becomes the renowned player in the largest market on the west coast of MLS.

Chicago almost caught another big name earlier this summer, but Kevin de Bruyne chose to sign with Napoli instead.

The signature of marquee players is not necessarily a new phenomenon of the league. In 2015, the League signed Andrea Pirlo, Frank Lampard, David Villa, Kaká, Steven Gerrard, Gio Dos Santos, Didier Drogba, Jozy Altidore and Sebastian Giovinco. But as MLS relies on the 2026 World Cup and the potential changes in the basic change in the coming year, it must start generating buzz. During the star match earlier this summer, the MLS commissioner, Don Garber, alluded to the League by considering major changes in the calendar, competition and the rules of alignment that could help these efforts. He called it MLS 3.0.

If the league can regularly mix these higher level signatures with the more active position of its teams on the world market for transfers, both with young international players and signatures in terms, this could help push MLS to a higher level.

The signing of sound in Los Angeles represents a step in this direction for a club which has always done well in other areas of the construction of the alignment.

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