Kaoru Mitoma (26-Brighton) has been recognized as having a similar value to Son Heung-min (31-Tottenham).
Transfer Market, a website specializing in the European soccer transfer market, listed the current prices of Asian players.
Mitoma is tied for second place with Son Heung-min. Their current market value is around 50 million euros (approximately 71.7 billion won).
Takefusa Kubo (22-Real Sociedad) is valued at the same amount.
The similarity between Mitoma and Son is due to their ages.
Mitoma was born in 1997 and is now 26 years old.
He has no big club experience yet, but is expected to be a player on the rise.
Until recently, he was linked to Manchester City and FC Barcelona.
However, he signed a new contract with his current club, Brighton, on Tuesday.
The contract runs until June 2027.
This means that Mitoma, who joined Brighton in 2021, will spend the next six years in the blue jersey of the Seagulls. In his second year in the English Premier League (EPL), Mitoma has scored 10 goals in the EPL.
Brighton head coach Roberto De Jervi said: “The re-signing of Mitoma is great news.
He is one of our best players.
We are delighted to welcome him back for another year.”
De Jervi rushed over to where Mitoma was filming his ‘wardrobe change’ and gave him a big hug.
Son was born in 1992 and is now 31 years old.
With the exception of his first season with Tottenham, Son has scored double-digit goals in the EPL in each of the last seven seasons.
He has 109 career EPL goals, and this season he is second on the EPL scoring list with six goals in eight games. He is very likely to continue his double-digit scoring this season.
Son also won the EPL Player of the Month award in September.
It was his third time winning the award, after September 2016 (4 goals, 1 assist), April 2017 (5 goals, 1 assist), and October 2020 (4 goals, 2 assists).
He scored six goals in September 2023 alone.
The only other players in EPL history to win four Player of the Month awards are legends like Thierry Henry, Paul Scholes, and Frank Lampard.
Son is right up there with them.
Comparisons between Mitoma and Son are premature.
Mitoma is in his second season in the EPL, while Son is a nine-year veteran. Their accomplishments are far from comparable.
However, Mitoma was valued at a higher price because he was younger and had more potential.
Japanese ace Mitoma, ‘EPL legend’ Son Heung-min set for 70 billion won…more than twice Lee Kang-in’s price tag
Reporter Lee Hyun-ho] Kaoru Mitoma (26-Brighton) has been recognized as having a similar value to Son Heung-min (31-Tottenham).
Transfer Market, a website specializing in the European soccer transfer market, listed the current prices of Asian players.
Mitoma is tied for second place with Son Heung-min.
Their current market value is around 50 million euros (approximately 71.7 billion won).
Takefusa Kubo (22-Real Sociedad) is valued at the same amount.
The similarity between Mitoma and Son is due to their ages.
Mitoma was born in 1997 and is now 26 years old.
He has no big club experience yet, but is expected to be a player on the rise.
Until recently, he was linked to Manchester City and FC Barcelona.
However, he signed a new contract with his current club, Brighton, on Tuesday.
The contract runs until June 2027.
This means that Mitoma, who joined Brighton in 2021, will spend the next six years in the blue jersey of the Seagulls.
In his second year in the English Premier League (EPL), Mitoma has scored 10 goals in the EPL.
Brighton head coach Roberto De Jervi said: “The re-signing of Mitoma is great news.
He is one of our best players.
We are delighted to welcome him back for another year.”
De Jervi rushed over to where Mitoma was filming his ‘wardrobe change’ and gave him a big hug.
Son was born in 1992 and is now 31 years old. 안전토토사이트
With the exception of his first season with Tottenham, Son has scored double-digit goals in the EPL in each of the last seven seasons.
He has 109 career EPL goals, and this season he is second on the EPL scoring list with six goals in eight games.
He is very likely to continue his double-digit scoring this season.
Son also won the EPL Player of the Month award in September.
It was his third time winning the award, after September 2016 (4 goals, 1 assist), April 2017 (5 goals, 1 assist), and October 2020 (4 goals, 2 assists).
He scored six goals in September 2023 alone.
The only other players in EPL history to win four Player of the Month awards are legends like Thierry Henry, Paul Scholes, and Frank Lampard.
Son is right up there with them.
Comparisons between Mitoma and Son are premature.
Mitoma is in his second season in the EPL, while Son is a nine-year veteran.
Their accomplishments are far from comparable.
However, Mitoma was valued at a higher price because he was younger and had more potential.
According to Transfer Market, the most expensive Asian player is Kim Min-jae (26-Bayern Munich).
He was valued at 60 million euros (approximately 86 billion won).
After Kim, Son, Heung-min, Mitoma, and Kubo, fifth is Daichi Kamada (27-Lazio) and sixth is Takehiro Tomiyasu (24-Arsenal).
PSG head coach Luis Enrique said in a press conference on Tuesday: “He has proven himself as soon as he joined PSG. In our team, he is a key midfielder, sometimes he can play as a winger, sometimes he can play as a striker.
He can also play as a false nine. He has a great final pass and a great finish.
He is a very interesting player.”
