Heung-min Son will return to Tottenham on Wednesday after a gruelling month with South Korea.

The forward will be assessed at Spurs' Enfield training ground but he is unlikely to start Saturday's game against Liverpool after playing eight internationals in 26 days.

Son played 524 minutes over six games in sweltering Indonesia, as South Korea won gold at the Asian Games to earn the 26-year-old and his team-mates exemption from national military service.

He travelled straight to his homeland, where he played 173 minutes for the senior national team across friendlies with Costa Rica and Chile this week.

Son also played every minute of South Korea's three World Cup games in Russia and took part in Spurs' pre-season tour of the USA in July after three weeks' holiday.

Since the end of last season, Son has crossed international borders ten times and he is scheduled to play in the Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates in January.

Spurs will discuss withdrawing him from South Korea's friendlies against Uruguay and Panama in the middle of next month, having already confirmed that he will miss the two friendlies in November and the first two games of the Asian Cup – in exchange for releasing him for the Asian Games.

Son missed the matches against Fulham, Manchester United and Watford and he now faces competition from August's Premier League player of the month Lucas Moura for a place.