South Korean wonder kid Min-hyuk Yang became Tottenham’s latest signing with the club announcing the deal earlier today.
Tottenham have not made a whole lot of noise this transfer window despite being linked with a number of players, including some big names.
Their biggest transfer this window has been the signing of Archie Gray from Leeds United. Other than that, they have only extended Timo Werner’s loan for another year and officially welcomed Lucas Bergvall to the side after agreeing a deal for him in January.
Yang is another 18-year-old they have added to the squad. The youngster had been making waves in the Korean league which attracted interest from Spurs.
However, his former club Gangwon’s director has revealed that Tottenham were not the only top club after him.
As per him, another top 6 Premier League club was interested in securing his services. However, the player himself preferred to join the North London side over them.
Speaking on YouTube, he said:
“It is true that another big 6 PL team that recently won the UCL had also enquired about Yang. That team had nice plans about Yang’s development and had approached us earlier than Spurs.
But what I didn’t realize at the time was that Yang had his heart set on Spurs I even asked him if he wanted to go to that other club, but Yang straightly refused, saying he wanted to only join Spurs.
To make it clear, it was Yang, rather than Gangwon, who made the choice to pick Tottenham as his next club. I respected the player’s wish.”
TBH says:
This revelation means that yet another youngster has opted to sign for Spurs over other big clubs.
Previously Lucas Bergvall rejected Barcelona and Radu Dragusin turned down Bayern Munich for the Lilywhites.
This speaks volume of the progress that has been made behind the scenes. It also shows just how big an effect Ange has had on convincing players to join his side.
