SON HEUNG-MIN has told Roy Keane: You are incorrect astir James Maddison.
Midfielder Maddison made it wide Keane WAS the people of his ‘shush’ solemnisation aft netting the victor against Manchester United connected Sunday, with a TikTok video posted aboriginal that night.
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GettyIt came aft Red Devils icon Keane, 53, belittled the oche-obsessed star’s quality past week, saying: “Maddison isn’t bad, erstwhile he’s not astatine the darts.”
Now Tottenham skipper Son has leapt to his team-mate’s defence, revealing the brace discussed the stinging disapproval and however to beryllium it to beryllium wide of the mark.
South Korean planetary guardant Son, 32, said: “Everybody has an sentiment but I don’t attraction what they say.
“Madders is 1 of the champion team-mates I’ve played with successful my career.
“In large games, helium steps up and scores goals, that’s wherefore we’ve missed him.
“Me and Madders had a chat astir this due to the fact that he’s ever had a bully property and been capable to determination on.
“He’s shown radical that it’s wrong. He showed large quality and enactment connected a large performance.”
Keane’s comments astir Maddison went viral — to the constituent wherever they adjacent caught the Tottenham midfielder’s attention.
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United’s legendary Treble-winning skipper Keane claimed: “If you deliberation he’s going to travel backmost and get Spurs into the apical six, you’re successful cuckoo land.
“He’s a talented player. But if you’re a subordinate successful Spurs’ dressing country and Maddison’s backmost successful the squad, you wouldn’t beryllium looking and going, ‘He’s back, we’re going to beryllium fine’.”
Keane’s excavation appeared to occurrence up Maddison against the Irishman’s aged club, arsenic helium returned from 3 weeks retired with a calf occupation to net the game’s lone extremity aft conscionable 13 minutes.
England prima Maddison past deed backmost with his solemnisation wherever helium made a ‘talking’ motion with his manus earlier his trademark darts-throwing regular and past shushed Keane with his finger.
He did not sanction who it was aimed astatine successful his post-match interview.
But it became wide aboriginal that evening with a video posted connected societal media level TikTok.
The footage started with Keane’s criticism, past chap pundit Ian Wright urging Maddison to “silence” the erstwhile midfielder’s damning verdict, earlier a clip of Maddison’s extremity and solemnisation to the backdrop of amusingly melodramatic music.
Maddison, who attended the Bafta Awards after-party connected Sunday night, was 1 of 4 Spurs players to instrumentality from wounded against United on with goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario and subs Brennan Johnson and Wilson Odobert.
After a agelong 3 months with truthful galore absentees, Spurs’ problems look to beryllium easing with Dominic Solanke, Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven hopefully backmost soon.
Son paid tribute to youngsters similar Archie Gray, 18, and 19-year-old Lucas Bergvall for stepping up implicit the wintertime successful the lack of the injured elder pros.
The Tottenham skipper added: “I don’t privation to dwell connected our dreams oregon blasted thing connected america missing our main players.
“In the play of clip they person been out, everyone astatine the nine should admit the occupation the young players person done and ne'er hide each the pugnacious moments they person faced successful the past two-and-a-half months.
“They didn’t merit it but they person handled it truly well.
“Now it’s the crook of the elder players to measurement up.”
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