Bruno Fernandes became the first Manchester United star to be crowned Premier League Player of the Season since Nemanja Vidi\u0107 won the award in 2010\u201311. Fernandes was also crowned the Player of the Year by the Football Writers\u2019 Association and may very well complete a clean sweep of individual accolades at the PFA awards. “A lot of players came out and said I was player of the season. For that, I am very grateful,” Fernandes acknowledged this week. Yet, he has loftier ambitions. “I want collective awards more than anything,” he stressed. “I want to win the Premier League, I want to win the Champions League.” For now, he will have to settle for this solo piece of recognition.<\/p>\n
The list of winners since 1994\u201395 reads as a mixture of dominant seasons and singular brilliance. Some recipients carried title-winning sides, while others stood out amid struggle. Juninho Paulista is a striking example from 1996\u201397: Middlesbrough were relegated in the same season the Brazilian directly contributed to 20 goals, 12 scored and eight created, for a side that finished 19th. Kevin Phillips claimed the individual award in 1999\u201300 despite his Sunderland side finishing seventh; Phillips struck an extraordinary 30 Premier League goals that season.<\/p>\n
Manchester United enjoyed a strong run in this award during their period of domestic dominance. From 2006\u201307 to 2010\u201311, five straight awards went to United players. Nemanja Vidi\u0107\u2019s 2010\u201311 gong was the most recent United winner until Fernandes this term.<\/p>\n
More recently, the prize has often fallen to players from Liverpool and Manchester City. N\u2019Golo Kant\u00e9 in 2016\u201317 was the last player from outside that Liverpool-City period to claim the award.<\/p>\n
Only five players have won the prize more than once: Thierry Henry (2003\u201304, 2005\u201306), Cristiano Ronaldo (2006\u201307, 2007\u201308), Nemanja Vidi\u0107 (2008\u201309, 2010\u201311), Kevin De Bruyne (2019\u201320, 2021\u201322) and Mohamed Salah (2017\u201318, 2024\u201325). No player has completed a hat-trick of titles, and Cristiano Ronaldo remains the only member of that group to win in consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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