‘If I was Liverpool’: Sky pundit makes transfer claim about Pochettino signing at Tottenham

Follow us on Google Discover

Kris Boyd thinks Liverpool should have secured the transfer of Son Heung-min from Tottenham Hotspur at the start of the summer.

Sadio Mane headed for the Liverpool exit doors this summer and former Scotland star thinks the ‘unbelievable’ Son should have been his replacement, as he told Sky Sports News.

It was a season to remember for Son in 2021/22 because the 30-year-old secured the Golden Boot, alongside Liverpool’s Mo Salah, and produced his best campaign since moving to England.

Mauricio Pochettino was in the Spurs dugout when Son swapped Germany’s top-tier for the bright and expensive lights of the Premier League.

Whilst Son took time to settle in north London, once he got his engine going, he hasn’t looked back since and he has been a superstar player for the team.

A record-breaker alongside his partner in crime Harry Kane, a Golden Boot winner and a player that is seven goals shy of scoring 100 Premier League goals, Boyd thinks Son took his game to the ‘next level’ last season, as he expressed why Liverpool should have snapped him up.

“When you have set the standards so high, then the performances of Kulusevski and Kane as well,” said Boyd. “Son last season was unbelievable.

“You felt he took his game to that next level. If I was Liverpool, that would have been the person I would have gone and got, to replace Mane.

“The same ilk, in terms of workrate, he sets the tempo, he goes after teams and he has that quality as well. It might have been a slow start from him personally, but there is nothing to worry about there.”

SLOW START FOR SON

Four Premier League games in and Son is yet to get off the mark, he was pretty upset at being subbed at Nottingham Forest on Sunday.

Tottenham were winning 1-0 at the time and the game was in the balance, the call from Antonio Conte to bring on Richarlison worked a treat because he assisted Harry Kane for his second goal of the afternoon.

But Son did express his anger on the bench, although, the Premier League’s all-time leading goalscorer, Alan Shearer, stated that he loved the reaction from the player.

It’s only a matter of time before Son is scoring for fun again, the key thing is that he is still missing big chances, so it’s just about one sticking.