The No. 7 kit at Tottenham Hotspur was vacant for a few weeks after the departure of Son Heung-Min to LAFC earlier this summer. That number had been Sonny\u2019s for the past decade, since the 2015-16 season, and it\u2019s a number that, for modern Spurs fans, is irrevocably tied to the tenure of one of Tottenham\u2019s modern legends.<\/p>\n
But it hasn\u2019t stayed vacant very long, and it\u2019s being given to Tottenham\u2019s newest player – Xavi Simons.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d like to think that Xavi is the most worthy person to take Sonny\u2019s number and carry it forward into the future. He\u2019s a huge talent, plays a similar position, and is a high profile name. I also think Sonny would agree with this assessment. Tottenham Hotspur doesn\u2019t retire numbers; if they did, #26 would be long since retired thanks to Ledley King. And that 7 shirt has been worn by plenty of good players over the years, including Aaron Lennon, Paul Staltieri, Chris Waddle, Micky Hazard, Clive Allen, Ossie Ardiles AND Ricky Villa (though not at the same time), Glenn Hoddle, and Jimmy Greaves to name just a few.<\/p>\n
But holy crap, it\u2019s going to be weird watching No. 7 play for Tottenham Hotspur and see someone other than Son Heung-Min. It\u2019ll take some getting used to for sure, but the hope is that Simons will understand the history and importance of the number he now wears and will use it for inspiration. I\u2019m sure he does \u2014 7 is the number he wears for the Netherlands national team.<\/p>\n
In other news, you can soon be able to order your XAVI 7 kit from Tottenham Hotspur\u2019s club shop. (It\u2019s an option, but it\u2019s currently greyed out, presumably so that the shop can stock up on the letter X.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 7 kit at Tottenham Hotspur was vacant for a few weeks after the departure of Son…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99,7021],"class_list":["post-119281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}