Like Son Heung-Min, Ben Davies has been at Tottenham Hotspur for a decade. And also like Son Heung-Min, the club respects him deeply and will keep him on for another year. Jack Pitt-Brooke at The Athletic is reporting that Tottenham is planning to exercise a clause in Davies’ contract that will keep him at the club for a further year, through the 2025-26 season.
The club did something similar with Son, whose contract also was set to expire at the end of this current season. Now, they’ll have the benefit of both veteran players, themselves best friends and the last two players from the Mauricio Pochettino era, as Ange Postecoglou continues to strengthen his side going forward.
Davies is a beloved figure amongst fans and at the club. He’s been a stalwart presence over the past decade, and while he’s considered a reserve player these days he’s been relied upon during injury crises over the past two seasons and has performed exceptionally well when called. In The Athletic, Pitt-Brooke notes how Davies not only comes in to do a job at left back and center back, but has worked hard to adapt his game to play the way Ange Postecoglou demands of his defense.
I said recently in an article how I’ve been surprised at how capable Davies has been when he’s been asked to play — he’s put in a number of extremely solid performances both at LB and CB this season and last, and I need to stop being surprised by that fact. By extending Davies, Spurs keep a valuable “glue guy” in the squad and is a reflection of his status as a hard-working, dependable veteran player. Keeping Davies also means that Spurs may not need to focus quite as many resources in identifying and upgrading the defense, at least for one season.
It’s widely expected that whenever Davies hangs up his boots he’ll go into coaching — he’s already achieved UEFA A and Elite Youth A Licenses and it would shock nobody if, at the end of his contract, he decides to take up a position with Tottenham’s academy as a means of entering the managerial marketplace.