Even Yang Min-hyuk, a blue-water Tottenham boy, cannot play in the world's best tournament Prospects for exclusion from the list → Lim Dae-seol Sol Sol Sol

Jul 24, 2025

Even Yang Min-hyuk, a blue-water Tottenham boy, cannot play in the world's best tournament Prospects for exclusion from the list → Lim Dae-seol Sol Sol Sol
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Yang Min-hyuk is not expected to play in the European Champions League (UCL), the world's best tournament, even if he remains at Tottenham.

England's The Athletic expressed concern on the 23rd (Korea time) 'Tottenham faced the possibility of having to exclude a large number of first-team players from the UCL squad for the upcoming season'

The Premier League (EPL) is a very open league for player registration. If all 25 players who can be registered as the first team are included, Yang Min-hyuk can be registered with the Tottenham Under-21 team for a while. The EPL has allowed U-21 players to play in the first team without having to register them separately.
Even Yang Min-hyuk, a blue-water Tottenham boy, cannot play in the world's best tournament Prospects for exclusion from the list → Lim Dae-seol Sol Sol Sol
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But the European battle is different. It's very tricky compared to EPL. European competitions, such as the UCL, simultaneously submit a list of first-team and under-21 squads. Twenty-five players can be registered in the first-team squad, and there is no limit on the number of players in the U-21 squad, but only players who have been trained at the club for more than two years after the age of 15 are allowed. For example, for the upcoming 2025-2026 season, only players born after 2004 who have trained at Tottenham for more than two years can be included in the U-21 squad. Yang Min-hyuk is not eligible for this because he became a Tottenham player this winter.




In other words, Yang Min-hyuk must be included in the first-team squad in order to play on the UCL stage as a Tottenham player. Being included in the first-team squad itself will be difficult with Yang Min-hyuk's current position. A bigger problem awaits. Tottenham is unable to fill all first-team players who can register up to 25 players.
Even Yang Min-hyuk, a blue-water Tottenham boy, cannot play in the world's best tournament Prospects for exclusion from the list → Lim Dae-seol Sol Sol Sol
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To fill the 25 players in the first team squad, eight players who have grown up in the country must be included. Four of the eight must be players who have spent three seasons or more than 36 months between the ages of 15 and 21 at the club. In Tottenham, only Brandon Austin, the third-ranked goalkeeper in the first team, belongs to the latter. If you have to fill four players who have grown up in the club, but there is only one player, you cannot register the remaining three seats. In other words, if Tottenham does not recruit players who have spent more than three seasons or 36 months between the ages of 15 and 21 for the rest of the transfer market, only 22 players, not 25, can register when registering the first-team squad with the UCL.

The Athletic analyzed that as many as nine players cannot be registered in the UCL first-team squad based on the current squad. Yang Min-hyuk also appeared in the process of mentioning the players to be excluded. The media reported that Tottenham manager Thomas Frank should exclude nine first-team players from the list. Takai Kota, Manor Solomon, Brian Hill, Yang Min-hyuk, Radu Dragushin, Ben Davies and Ashley Phillips are mentioned as potential candidates for exclusion, but they are only seven in total.

It is extremely unlikely that Yang Min-hyuk will be included in the Tottenham UCL first-team squad amid a situation where players such as Dragusin and Davis are also likely to be excluded. Yang Min-hyuk's growth away from the lease as he did last season could also be a good option, as he is unlikely to get a chance often in the league. In fact, Yang Min-hyuk is steadily raising the possibility of renting.






This article was translated by Naver AI translator.