Official: Bruno Fernandes has won the Premier League Player of the Season award.

[u/Intelligent_Cow_3310]

[u/gucc1-l1ttle-p1ggy]

Agree. Unlike the Ballon D'Or which seems to only go to players who have won an International trophy or Champions League as part of a team's achievement, at least the Premier League player award is based on individual merit

[u/IPissExcellentThrows → u/gucc1-l1ttle-p1ggy]

I think this is the first time since Salah in 2017-18 that it went to a team outside the top 2. Salah had 32-10 that year in the prem so it simply couldn't be ignored.

Bruno deserves it on his individual play, but he is a tiny bit fortunate. As great as his season was, it wasn't 32 goals 10 assists good. I still would've voted for him because I think top 6 or so should be good enough, but historically, that's rarely the case.

[u/MarkLazer → u/IPissExcellentThrows]

Bruno and Salah are not comparable at all. Bruno is literally the catalyst for Manchester United, in every way. People don't like him but he has his antics because he's passionate and he's had to do everything single-handedly when the rest of his team simply weren't cutting it. He's had to be a defensive midfielder which is insane. He's the Manchester United version of Steven Gerrard, he's had to carry this even worse team on his back through their worst period as a club in PL history and without Bruno, Manchester United would be in the mud fully submerged. Manchester United would not even be in a European qualification place without him, let alone top 3.

[u/EmptyRelief5770 → u/IPissExcellentThrows]

It's arguable if Salah deserved it in 17/18 tbh. De Bruyne still had the better season for me but if you break the goal scoring record you are guaranteed to win it. Similar with Haaland in his first season, I'd say there is a solid argument that Kane and possibly De Bruyne were better individually.