Phil Foden was already a Premier League star. He just needed an award to corroborate it, and he already has it. The Manchester City youth player succeeds his teammate Erling Haaland and wins the ‘Best Player of the Season’ award in the 2023-2024 Premier League. For the fifth consecutive year (Kevin de Bruyne in 2020 and 2022, Rúben Dias in 2021, and Erling Haaland in 2023), and although the Premier League ‘forgot’ about Rodri Hernández in this year’s nominations, a player from the team citizens He is individually raised to the altars of English football.
The ‘Iniesta of Stockport’, in the absence of the last day of the Premier League in which Pep Guardiola’s pupils are playing to win the fourth consecutive league title, adds 17 goals and eight assists. But youth player skyblue still 23 years old It is much more than statistics. Established in the first team for several seasons now, being Pep Guardiola’s right ‘eye’, it was in 2023-2024 that Phil Foden served as Manchester City’s superstar. At times, ‘The Sniper’, as his captain Kyle Walker nicknamed him, was the most decisive player in the Mancunian team.
In Erling Haaland’s drop in performance and with Kevin de Bruyne injured, it was the English midfielder who, with the permission of Rodri Hernández, pulled the wagon and carried out many games to lead Manchester City to win another Premier League. After consecutively winning the ‘Best Young Player of the Season’ award in 2020-2021 and 2021-2022, the only player to date to have won the award twice, Phil Foden stars in the definitive assault on Premier League stardom. Pep Guardiola already anticipated it last March: “He is the best player in the Premier League right now because of the amount of things he does”.
A footballer who moves in small spaces like no one else, with a vision of the game and quality that make him a generational talent, and deserving of an award like this. Counting all the competitions, his numbers skyrocket to 25 goals and 10 assists. Two games away from winning a new double (Premier League and FA Cup), the record of Phil Foden, at 23 years old, is enviable: five Premier League, one Champions League, two FA Cup, four Carabao Cup, one European Super Cup, one Club World Cup and two Community Shield. And the best is yet to come.
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