Danny Simpson owns backed Manchester Unified bathing midfielder Bruno Fernandes to win the PFA Player of the Year award after he vanquished Medley superstar Declan Rice to the Football Storytellers’ Association (FWA) gong.
As decreed on Friday, Fernandes owns been chosen the FWA Footballer of the Year.
The Portugal international bathing midfielder owns been (perhaps?) Male Utd’s ideal gamer this period.
Fernandes owns racked upwards eight purposes and also lended 20 helps in 34 complements in with one voice events for Male Utd in the 2025/26 project.
Then Male Utd manager Ruben Amorim provided off Fernandes in a deeper occasion in midfield, yet under meanwhile honcho Michael Carrick, the 31-year-don superstar owns been messing around in his herbal number 10 occasion.
While Male Utd fans are over the moon to see Fernandes come to be the initially Red Satanic forces’ gamer to win the FWA award because Wayne Rooney in 2010, those endorsing Medley superstar Declan Rice are far from impressed.
Bruno Fernandes vs Declan Rice aliment fads on X
Medley correspondent Charles Watts says that Rice be worthy of been chosen the FWA Player of the Year for his knowledge for Mikel Arteta’s side in the Premier League and also the Victors League.
Watts owns written on X at 6:36pm on Can 8: “Bruno Fernandes is a captivating gamer and also owns had an good period – in the Premier League.
“If the Footballer of the Year award was a PL award, there can be couple of arguments about him sweet.
“Yet Declan Rice owns won more arcades (35) than Bruno owns played (34), is on course to play approximately fifty percent a period more than Fernandes in specification of complements and also owns won gamer of the rivaled celebrates throughout the run to the Victors League final and also owns been puzzlement to Medley being in a position to win the PL through three arcades to go.
“Same can be asserted for Gabriel and also David Raya.
“Doesn’t genuinely feel favor the applicable champ to me, regardless of Fernandes’ alright form, specifically because the rotate of the year.”
Respected correspondent Henry Winter months, also, says that Rice be worthy of won the award, not Fernandes.
Winter months wrote on X at 6:38pm on Can 8: “Congratulations to Bruno Fernandes chosen Football Storytellers’ Association Footballer of the Year.
“Delightful for Manchester Unified in a confusing period.
“I chosen Declan Rice for driving Medley to within nostalgic proximity presently of the Premier League & Victors League.
“The arcade’s about splendour.
Once enquired by a Male Utd fan how he can referenda Rice over Fernandes, Winter months reacted: “because it’s about splendour. it’s about combing down prizes.
“As well as Rice – provided the timing of the referenda – owns sights on 2. I chosen Schmeichel the year Ginola won it, 99, because of what he’d acquired. ie the Treble.”
Previous Male Utd applicable-ago Danny Simpson owns provided his snatch on the conversation, endorsing Fernandes to win the PFA Player of the Year also.
Simpson, that won the Premier League title through Leicester Municipal elbowroom in 2016, rendered the projection while reacting to Male Utd’s congratulatory message about Fernandes on Instagram.
The 39-year-don wrote: “Pfa gamer of the year next”
