Four Liverpool players are on the six-man shortlist for the Professional Footballers’ Association Players’ Player of the Year award. The English Premier League champions who won the just concluded Premier League season have the likes of last year’s winner Virgil van Dijk, the skipper Jordan Henderson, Trent Alexander-Arnold and the current African player of the year Saido Mane.
Runners-up Manchester City also have two of their players listed in the nomination, they have Kevin de Bruyne and Raheem Sterling. The six players are the players listed for the Professional Footballer’s Association Player of the Year Award. There is also the category for woman and in that category, there are four Chelsea players in the Women’s Player of the Year category, the players are:
Beth England, Sophie Ingle, Guro Reiten and Ji So-yun are all included.
Holder Vivianne Miedema and her Arsenal team-mate Kim Little complete the list.
As well as the main men’s award, Liverpool defender Alexander-Arnold also features on the young player list.
The winners will be announced on Tuesday.
Men’s player of the year
Trent Alexander-Arnold – Liverpool
Kevin de Bruyne – Manchester City
Jordan Henderson – Liverpool
Sadio Mane- Liverpool
Raheem Sterling – Manchester City
Virgil van Dijk – Liverpool
Women’s player of the year
Beth England – Chelsea
Sophie Ingle – Chelsea
Kim Little – Arsenal
Vivianne Miedema – Arsenal
Guro Reiten – Chelsea
Ji So-yun – Chelsea
Men’s young player
Tammy Abraham – Chelsea
Trent Alexander-Arnold – Liverpool
Marcus Rashford – Manchester United
Mason Greenwood – Manchester United
Mason Mount – Chelsea
Bukayo Saka – Arsenal
(Nominees had to be 21 or under on 1 July, 2019)
Women’s young player
Erin Cuthbert – Chelsea
Lauren Hemp – Manchester City
Chloe Kelly – Manchester City
Georgia Stanway – Manchester City
Lauren James – Manchester United
Ellie Roebuck – Manchester City