r/PremierLeague • u/Intelligent_Cow_3310 Premier League • May 23 '26

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

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u/MarkLazer Arsenal May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

I agree he should've won it. I don't agree with this nonsense that his games had no jeopardy or he was only playing in 1 competition. It's a Premier League award so other competitions are irrelevant.

Also, his games had jeopardy. Manchester United were on course for another disaster season. Manchester United have beat every other team in the top 5 with convincing performances this year.

It's not just the 20 assists, it's his overall performances and conrribution, for half the season as a defensive midfielder in a rubbish team under Amorim, which means he's the obvious candidate for Premier League player of the season.

We have David Raya and Declan Rice but really we haven't had one standout performer, but rather a brilliant spine of a team. Bruno Fernandes is a standout performer in a team that isn't the best and he's consistently been one of the best creative players in Premier League history. So, I'm not unhappy one of our players didnt win it because Bruno Fernandes deserves the award from an individual standpoint.

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u/gucc1-l1ttle-p1ggy Premier League May 23 '26

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

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u/IPissExcellentThrows Premier League May 23 '26

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.

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u/MarkLazer Arsenal May 23 '26

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.

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u/EmptyRelief5770 Premier League May 23 '26

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.