Salah, Fernandes up for PFA Player of the Year

Liverpool guardant Mohamed Salah and Manchester United skipper Bruno Fernandes are among the players shortlisted for the 2024-25 Men's PFA Player of the Year award.

The grant is voted for by the players astatine the extremity of each season, with the victor acceptable to beryllium announced astatine a ceremonial astatine Manchester Opera House connected Aug. 19.

Midfielder's Alexis Mac Allister and Declan Rice are besides nominated pursuing standout campaigns with Liverpool and Arsenal, respectively. Chelsea's Cole Palmer and Newcastle United's Alexander Isak implicit the six-man shortlist.

Salah, who antecedently won the grant successful 2017-18 and 2021-22, is the favourite to triumph this twelvemonth aft enjoying a memorable play for Liverpool, netting 29 league goals and 18 assists to assistance Arne Slot's broadside clinch the Premier League title.

Teammate Mac Allister is besides recognised for his pivotal relation successful Liverpool's rubric win, with the Argentina planetary having made 35 league appearances for his nine past term.

Portugal planetary Fernandes has earned a information for his awesome idiosyncratic form, contempt United's wide mediocre show successful the league past season.

The 30-year-old contributed 8 league goals and 10 assists for his broadside during the run and besides became the subordinate with the astir extremity contributions successful the past of the UEFA Europa League aft guiding his squad to the final.

Last season's Young Player of the Year Cole Palmer has this twelvemonth been nominated for the main prize, having scored 15 Premier League goals to assistance Chelsea unafraid Champions League shot for adjacent season.

Meanwhile, Newcastle's Isak secures his archetypal PFA Players' Player of the Year information aft a fantastic run during which helium scored 23 league goals and helped Eddie Howe's broadside triumph their archetypal large trophy successful implicit 50 years aft netting successful the League Cup last astatine Wembley.

Rounding disconnected the database is England planetary Rice, who deed a vocation precocious of 9 goals successful a azygous run for Arsenal, with 10 assists crossed 52 matches successful each competitions.