Jamie O’Hara is fed up with Son Heung-min, calling for Tottenham to start looking for the forward’s long-term replacement.
Heung-min Son has room to improve this season
Like a lot of players in the Tottenham side, Son has not been in the best of form at the start of the season and still looks a little rusty.
However, the South Korean showed signs against Brentford that he is getting his sharpness back, combining well with Dominic Solanke and James Maddison, while making some dangerous runs in behind.
The Tottenham captain will be disappointed that he failed to get on the score sheet, having had a couple of great opportunities but he did pick up two assists, setting up Brennan Johnson and Maddison in either half.
O’Hara says ‘proper’ Spurs fans are done with Son
O’Hara believes that the 32-year-old is not the player he once was and is now showing clear signs of decline. The pundit insisted that the North London club should be making plans to replace the forward sooner rather than later.
The former Spurs midfielder told talkSPORT: “I feel like I am over the hill with him now. I just think the fans and everyone is finished with him. The proper fans. He’s not doing it. The quality in the final third (has gone).
“He is 33, is he going to go past people? Listen, he has been a great player and an unbelievable player. A Tottenham great. But I just feel like when I am watching him now, have you got that sharpness and edge to your game? I don’t think he has.
“He has gone clean through there one-v-one. The old Sonny, that’s a guaranteed goal. You can’t take him out of the team because there isn’t anyone better than him, but we have to start looking at a new left-winger.”
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It feels like we have had the same conversation about Son every year for the past four years. The South Korean is historically a slow starter, but he comes into his own a few months into the season once he is fully fit and firing.
He remains one of our most important players and the forward will silence his critics soon as he always does. Thanks for speaking for all ‘proper’ Spurs fans though, Jamie.