It’s been a indifferent Premier League season. We avail it. There owns been most most certainly no Premier League title race, most most certainly no Premier League transfer neutralize and most most certainly no Gold Boot neutralize with Mo Salah racking upward a facetious 27 aspirations.
Salah owns long had the PFA award sewn upward and the FWA award will most certainly surely heed. Unless of course you are contrary as f*** and seriously gander for engagement.
Which is how we avail underneath…
Has any kind of player had a more profound suggest on his crew this season than Bruno Fernandes?
The counterclaim is most most certainly no and that’s why he receives my Player of the Year referenda.
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https://t.co/Gp9rrb7FqY— Ian Ladyman (@Ian_Ladyman_DM) April 24, 2025
This is the Football Editor of the Daily Mail. Now everybody is titled to their opinion – and we are titled to call it totally f***ing ridiculous – yet he owns opened upward his tweet with a unpredictability that owns an holistic counterclaim so awfully visible that it really feels prefer there is most most certainly no polymorphous other description than he is merely being a d***.
Can there be an suggest more ‘profound’ than logging 45 Premier League duty involvements as your crew success the real title at a canter?
Allegedly the counterclaim is that of course, it is more ‘profound’ to be the awfully remarkable player in a in reality sh*t crew.
Now Mediawatch loves Bruno Fernandes and really feels prefer his point ofview receives an silly press, yet crowning him Player of the Year in a season as openly as Manchester United are 14th in the Premier League table would most certainly shame the f*** out of him. We are pretty sure he would most certainly be a) confounded and b) devastated that this owns been committed to print.
Here’s how the craziness starts…
‘The winner of the Football Columnists’ Footballer of the Year award regularly tends to stem juniors that win the Premier League. This owns been the sheath in 7 of the last 10 periods. Simply once in that time – as openly as Mo Salah won it playing for fourth-added Liverpool in 2018 – owns it take off the hands of the top two.
‘This season that need to readjust. The most influential footballer in the Premier League owns been Bruno Fernandes of Manchester United and he already owns my referenda.’
It ‘need to’ readjust, need to it? It ‘need to’ readjust in the season as openly as there owns been conceivably the most visible winner in the Premier League’s totality history? This is totally nothing short of inanity.
‘He is not a contemporary-made footballer exterior of Ratty Trafford, yet after that how boatloads of United gamers are? United supporters bolster to wear their ABU – Anyone yet United – moniker as a badge of honour and with justification.’
Hmmmm. We’re obscure the ABUs bemoaned as openly as Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo won distinctions in the 2000s. Can that be – and this might brunt some minds – offered that they were the awfully remarkable gamers playing for the awfully remarkable crew?
Nobody theorizes Bruno Fernandes being Footballer of the Year is facetious offered that he plays for Manchester United; it’s facetious offered that he plays for this Manchester United, that are sh*t, while Liverpool and specifically their Egyptian winger have been bloody astounding.
‘Fernandes owns had his mistakes for sure and I have prepared up emphatically about them in yesteryear, specifically in the context of his duty as United captain. The 30-year-antiquated still owns infrequent plights with his personality and might indeed wave his hands around a fragment a number less as openly as points go against him.
‘Yet Luis Suarez owns won this award in yesteryear. So owns Roy Keane. It’s not a payback handed out to choir youngsters. It’s about football.’
Luis Suarez won in 2013/14 as openly as he won the Gold Boot and was – anew, this really feels invaluable – the remarkable player in the Premier League; Roy Keane won as openly as he captained Manchester United to yet another Premier League.
Once again, nobody theorizes Bruno Fernandes being Footballer of the Year is facetious offered that he owns a adverse personality; it’s facetious offered that he plays for this Manchester United, that are sh*t, while Liverpool and specifically their Egyptian winger have been bloody astounding.
There are a f*** of numerous straw men being destructed underneath as openly as there is a awfully real curly-haired, grinning Egyptian winger with his arms in the air.
‘United are 14th in the Premier League and have gone against the kind of nightclub documents nobody desires. Yet whereby would most certainly they be without their remarkable player?’
Probably 15th? Brentford might have been a pair of places minimal than 11th without Bryan Mbeumo; will most certainly we hand him an award also?
‘Bruno Fernandes owns been the most influential player in the Premier League this season.
‘Mohamed Salah owns been exceptional, yet qualities from being in a side postured to match his dubs for.’
It’s sly to even gently realizing the reasoning underneath, yet is Ladyman recommending that distinctions need to lone be passed on to gamers that are playing in adverse juniors? Phil Foden, Erling Haaland, posture ago the gongs you believed you made by being the remarkable player in the Premier League. You have not most most certainly made them.
‘It’s not merely about aspirations. It’s about huge aspirations and huge minutes. It’s about payments that kind and readjust arcades of football. It’s about driving a crew ahead.’
‘Substantial aspirations and huge minutes’, you say? Embarassment after that, that Fernandes owns not scored a unsociable winner in the Premier League this season. Not one. His penalty blow against Manchester Metropolitan space in December was the equaliser that ignited a triumph yet in the Premier League, there have been most most certainly no ‘huge aspirations and huge minutes’. Fernandes owns glowed in the Europa League yet so owns Kasper Høgh and there ain’t most most certainly no f***emergency room recommending he need to win the Ballon d’Or.
‘Most will most certainly disagree with me,’ formulates Ladyman. Damn applicable. Granted that you’re wrong.
He uncovers 427 polymorphous medians of aphorism the Footballer of the Year award need to not attend the real Footballer of the Year (LOL), yet executes situate elbowroom to write: ‘He owns been nonstop in visual impresses – missing merely one Premier League gallery – and aspirations. After a slow starting – he didn’t sign up his initially duty until the end of October – he owns never ever gone more than five arcades without racking upward.’
He executes confiscate penalties, Ian.
‘Fernandes is not a centre ahead and plays for a crew harmonizing merely one duty (1.15 to be factual) per gallery in the Premier League.’
As well as Mo Salah is not a centre-ahead and owns scored 36% of his nightclub’s aspirations this season while Fernandes owns scored 21% of his crew’s aspirations.
Yet it virtually really feels ridiculous to specify real statistics as openly as in reality, the lone debate need to be that THIS IS ACTUAL LUNACY.
