FWA Footballer of the Year

The players weren't really there.

Bruno Fernandes is the shadow of the shadow of the player who was voted Footballer of the Year.

last season, a choice which, by the way, looks greater and greater with every day.

You can carry on like that for a long time, but I think a lot has to do with the incompetence.

And then you see, you know, overnight there is like him liking various Instagram things and all this.

And it's like, you're supposed to be the guy that set the standard, as Philippe said.

This guy was one footballer of the year last year.

Funny enough, who won the Football of the Year the year before that? Mohamed Salah.

Gullit said.

The young attacking midfielder was voted Dutch Footballer of the Year by his fellow players while the media handed Cruyff the golden boot.

Hanging up his boots at the end of that season, El Salvador had more wisdom to pass on.

At the end of the year, he told me, rude, the next club you go to, be prepared for the fact that people won't like you anymore.

Towards the end, he went on a rampage with nine in four games, finishing off with two in a 3-2 win against Feyenoord.

PSV finished eight points clear of Ajax, winning the league for the first time in eight years.

At 23, Gullit was named Dutch Footballer of the Year for a second time.

He was simply unstoppable in the 1986-87 campaign, too, scoring 22 goals in 34 matches as PSV won the league again.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, Scott McTominay goes to, uh, Italy, wins Footballer of the Year.

Now, Scott McTominay looked a good player.

He didn't look like he was gonna be the Footballer of the Year anytime soon, did he? When, when, you know-

No, no

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Man United's defense was not permanently good at all

... on form, like you, you won the Footballer of the Year last year.

On form, Bruno Fernandes is the best pure footballer in the Premier League.

But I, I-

when he's on form.

But, like, with Carrick, he's just wasted, and I, I hate to see that.

I saw someone say that he's had the biggest drop-off of winning, being the Footballer of the Year-

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His breathtaking technique, sublime left-footed volleys, immaculate leadership, and unmatched clutch goal scoring made him the most feared forward in English football.

earning him both the PFA Players' Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year awards.

Despite that unforgettable peak, his decision to reject a contract extension, release an explosive public statement expressing his desire to leave, and ultimately complete a £24 million transfer to Manchester United.

where he promptly won the Premier League title under Sir Alex Ferguson, broke the hearts of Gooners worldwide.

Uh, the great quote actually from Michael Parkinson, which is in your piece, who's a, a, an old, uh, English, um, chat show host and, and journalist, I suppose, for people who aren't aware of him, uh, maybe who are elsewhere in the world.

He says, "My only reaction upon hearing that George Best had been named Footballer of the Year by claiming 60% of the vote was to ask my informant, 'Who on earth did the remaining 40% go for?'" Um, yeah, just an absolute, an absolute icon, and maybe the only man with an airport named after him that we've used-

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... together.

Um, I remember, I remember reading this.

Um, I think they went to the, they all went to the Footballer of the Year, uh, lunch, uh, dinner at the Cafe Royale.

Yeah.

And, um, Coventry City were represented by Secretary Alan Leather, coach Jimmy Andrews, and players Maurice Setters and Neil Martin.