It’s ironic that this article was made a day after Son scored the only goal that Dortmund have conceded in over 7 hours of match time. And you’re right, he never played as a lone forward but he still works his ass off. He’ll benefit from Kane playing the mobile target man, able to hold the ball up and send a pass into space which Son runs onto.

Great comment! Pinpointed everything I was going to say.

#1. If you’re gonna base a player off his stats, you better judge him by the number of starts, not cameo substitute appearances.

#2. Spurs don’t play the same style of play as Leverkusen did and don’t even play Son in his natural position (which is actually CF). He played almost his entire career with Leverkusen as a left winger, not a narrow right sided midfielder. At Hamburg he was a center forward, often acting as an attacking midfielder with freedom to roam across the front line, either side.

#3. It’s his first season in the Premier League and he’s just 23 years old, being thrown into a new system, a new team and playing in a fairly new role. He’s adapted quite well to Spurs demands. At Leverkusen he never defended, in fact he rarely even went into his own half. His biggest weakness at Leverkusen was that he struggled for consistency for most of the season, but then he’d have a spell where he was the Bundesligas most dangerous attacker, and I’m not exaggerating.

#4. As madcaplaughs mentions below, look at Lamela now compared to his first season. Another young player who came into the Premier League and had to adapt. You don’t seem to realise how hard it is to move somewhere completely different. When I moved to England from Colombia I felt lost for about 2 years before I started to feel comfortable. People seem to think it’s easy to move somewhere new and carry on living as you did before.

Look at Salomón Rondón at West Brom. He was probably the best attacker in Russia along with Hulk. He only left because the Russian footballing body have a rule on foreign players which they tightened and had to sell one of their players. He went to West Brom, a club with less creativity than 4-4-2, and he struggled to score week in week out because he wasn’t used to playing with no service. Now he’s starting to adapt to it, he realised he needed to put 100% in to have any chance of making a difference and now he works his ass off every game, chases balls that 95% of strikers in the PL wouldn’t bother with and it’s starting to reap rewards for him and for West Brom.

You’ll get the best out of Son next season and I guarantee he’ll be one of the first names on the team sheet, but carry on writing shit like this article and you’ll find him driven away from White Hart Lane and scoring hattricks against you with another club.