Manchester City ahead Phil Foden received the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year award on Tuesday. Foden performed a key function in City profitable an unprecedented fourth consecutive Premier League title final time period. The 24-year-old scored 19 instances and delivered eight assists for Pep Guardiola’s workforce as they pipped Arsenal to the title on the final day of the season. “To win this award is one thing very particular and it’s one which I’m very pleased with and grateful for. To be recognised this fashion by your fellow professionals means all the things and I wish to thank everybody who voted for me,” Foden stated.
“I additionally wish to pay particular due to Pep, the City coaches and all my teammates as they assist me to try to get higher each single day.”
Foden has already set his sights on a fifth successive Premier League crown after City began their title defence with a 2-0 win at Chelsea on Sunday.
“Last season was one other very particular one for everybody on the Club however now all our focus is focused on attempting to attain extra success this time period,” he stated.
Foden additionally received the 2023-24 Premier League participant of the season award and was named the Football Writers’ Association footballer of the yr.
City director of Football Txiki Begiristain added: “Everyone right here is so thrilled to see Phil win this award. To have your fellow professionals recognise you in such a approach may be very particular.
“Phil embodies all the things we stand for at Manchester City. He is a supremely gifted participant however is somebody who at all times strives to hunt to enhance.
“He is a really humble man who’s massively common all through the Club. We are all very pleased with him.”
Foden’s City team-mates Erling Haaland, who received the award final yr, and Rodri, in addition to Chelsea’s Cole Palmer, Arsenal’s Martin Odegaard and Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins had been additionally on the Player of the Year shortlist.
Chelsea ahead Palmer was named the boys’s PFA younger participant of the yr.
Foden and Palmer’s awards made it the primary time that each the senior and younger participant trophies went to English gamers since 2009-10, when Wayne Rooney and James Milner took dwelling the silverware.
England worldwide Palmer was second solely to Haaland within the Premier League scoring charts with 22 objectives in a breakthrough marketing campaign after leaving Guardiola’s workforce to maneuver to Stamford Bridge.
City loved a clean-sweep of the primary awards on the Manchester ceremony as Khadija Shaw was voted the ladies’s Player of the Year.
Jamaican ahead Shaw was the highest scorer within the Women’s Super League with 21 objectives as City had been edged out for the title on aim distinction by Chelsea.
“I’m each glad and proud to have acquired this award, to be recognised in such a approach by my friends is a really particular honour,” Shaw stated.
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