Tottenham will offer a contract option with Son Heung-min, which will avoid a repeat of the confrontation with Harry Kane

Son Heung-min has started the season well under Ange Postecoglou Photo: Stephen Pond/Getty Images

Tottenham Hotspur will spare themselves another summer uncertainty regarding their star player, which led to an option to extend Son Heung-min's contract.

Son's existing contract expires at the end of next season, but Telegraph Sport can reveal the club have the option to extend it for at least another year, which they will take advantage of.

This means Son is effectively committed to » Tottenham» until at least 2026. Although this option has not yet been exercised and is unlikely to be exercised anytime soon, the club and South Koreans expect and intend for it to be exercised.

Spurs may even wait until the end of the season to officially exercise the option on 31 -year-old Son, because the club is so calm about his future that they don’t need to distract him at all.

< p>After Tottenham were effectively forced to sell Harry Kane to Bayern Munich this summer with one year left on his contract, Tottenham will not face a similar situation due to Son, which will be a huge boost for the manager Ange Postecoglou

Son started the season well under Postecoglou, scoring a hat-trick against Burnley, and became the Australian captain following the sale of Kane and the demotion of goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

Son takes home the ball after a hat-trick against Burnley Photo: Paul Ellis/AFP

Lloris is now effectively the third goalkeeper to Tottenham after turning down a number of offers to move in the summer, but he is expected to leave on a free transfer in January.

Despite Tottenham's impressive start to the season, chairman Daniel Levy confirmed that the fact that he is still open to offers to buy a stake in the club.

Levy has previously turned down offers from the Far East and Middle East. East and the United States, and said: “I have no real interest in leaving Tottenham, but I am obliged to consider anything that anyone can offer. It's not about me, it's about what's good for the club.»

Rejecting the proposals for now, he added: «Nothing has been brought to our table that we feel is in the best interests of shareholders «.

“We run the club as if it were a public company. If anyone wants to make a serious proposal to the Tottenham board, we will look at it with our advisors and if we feel it is in the best interests of the club, we will be open to anything.»

Levy also confirmed Telegraph Sport's story that a clause included in the deal to sell Kane that could allow Spurs to re-sign him was a first-choice deal that is contingent on fee negotiations with Bayern and the England captain wanting to return.< /p >

“If Harry one day wants to return to the Premier League and goes to Tottenham, we will have the opportunity to buy him,” Levy said. “Harry has been a great servant to the club, a fantastic player, coming from our academy, but you can't look too far into the future. Who knows.»

Scott Mann has officially started work as Tottenham's chief football director after his original July 1 start date was delayed.

Tottenham sack chief scout Tottenham by Leonardo Gabbanini.