freundorfoe
Vital 1st Team Regular
I don't get this Son thing. He has to win a gold medal at either the Asian games in August or Cup in a few months to avoid doing 2 years military service.
Why would he want to avoid it and why did we sign him with this situation on the cards? We have allowed him to play in the Asian games to try and avoid him doing the service. Fifa does not recognise the event so we don't have to let him play.
This smacks of cowardice and desperation on Sons and the clubs part. If you have to serve....serve.
He won't be genuinely serving though. They'd just put him in the military football team and take photos/do PR stuff by what I've read. They've previously made players exempt when they've brought honour to the country by medalling so it's not cowardice for him to try and do the same.
Honestly I think it's ridiculous they can't just tell him he can do his service when he's 35 rather than cutting short the career of probably the best player in their country's history. I still have a feeling common sense may prevail even if they don't win the Asian games and from a pure Spurs perspective surely you don't want us to lose an important player?