Do you agree with the PFA Premier League Team of the Season lineup?

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[Mamoon]

Pathetic to see the Liverpool propaganda as usual.

Son was a level above Mane, he is comfortably the best LW/LF in the league now. Completely idiotic decision to leave him out for Mane.

Mane PR has been very strong this season, they were even calls for him winning the Ballon d’Or when he is not even in the running.

Rest of the team looks good and pretty much picks itself, although it is funny to see a right back who cannot defend.

Reece James > TAA

 

[silentkiller187]

Seems like more of a popularity contest rather than a team of the year these days, Son deserved to be in there for starters, You could argue for both Mane and Ronaldo to be dropped quite easily, Thiago also.

 

[James]

no Son in there is a joke.

 

[Firebat]

The team that finished 2nd in the league won the Manager of the Season, as well as the most players in the PFA Team of the Season. Strange.

Son, with his 23 non-penalty goals to share the Golden Boot, should have been a shoe-in TBH.

 

[Marooned]

Son missing out has turned this team into a joke.
Apart from that, Kane was better than Ronaldo. Mane could've been considered for striker position as well. Rodri for Thiago.

 

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The PFA Team of the Year has caused quite a stir with some notable omissions.

While picking a best XI of the season is always going to divide opinion, the exclusion of certain stars has riled fans.

Son finished the season with 23 goals, more than Ronaldo and Mane

The most notable player to miss out on a spot in the team was Heung-min Son.

The Tottenham star was outstanding after scoring 23 goals for Antonio Conte’s side, helping them to earn fourth spot in the table.

With Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Cristiano Ronaldo being named at the attacking trio in the Team Of The Year, ex-Tottenham striker Darren Bent believes that Son’s exclusion is baffling.

Speaking on talkSPORT Drive, Bent said: “I think that Son had better seasons than two out of the three.

“I’d have had Son ahead of Ronaldo and Son ahead of Mane, so that leaves Salah and they both shared the golden boot and you’d have to say and Liverpool fans would have to agree, Salah didn’t have a good end to the season.

“I thought he was quite poor, but the first half of the season he was absolutely electric.

“The fact that Son was so consistent. I remember Son scoring against Manchester City when they beat them under Nuno [Espirito Santo] at the very start of the season.

“Consistently, he’s been doing it for a period of time, but the fact that he’s been completely overlooked by his peers is wrong.”

Elsewhere Alisson was picked in goal, while Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Antonio Rudiger and Joao Cancelo were named in defence.

Kevin de Bruyne and Bernardo Silva were named in midfield, however it was the inclusion of Thiago Alcantara ahead of Rodri and Declan Rice that really riled Bent.

He explained: “Rodri is the one I don’t understand.

“In holding midfield they were looking for someone to replace Fernandinho and Declan Rice, everyone talks about him, but the fact that neither of them were in shocks me.

“Thiago’s another one, I don’t get it.

“You could go either way with Trent or Walker, they’ve both been good. The goalkeeper, yeah it’s the flip of a coin between Ederson or Alisson, but Thiago?

“In the Champions League, Thiago has been incredible but in the Premier League I think he’s only played 23 games this season.”

So assuming Bent takes Ronaldo out for Son and wants to include the other notable omissions he mentioned, here is how the ex-Premier League striker’s team would look…

 

[Mamoon]

The team that finished 2nd in the league won the Manager of the Season, as well as the most players in the PFA Team of the Season. Strange.

Son, with his 23 non-penalty goals to share the Golden Boot, should have been a shoe-in TBH.

Not just Mane’s but the Liverpool PR overall is very strong. They are a fantastic team but some of the players are overrated as hell who will be exposed in a different system and let’s not pretend that they aren’t massive bottlers.

2018-19 PL, 2018 UCL Final, 2021-22 PL, 2022 UCL Final - same generation, 4 bottlejobs.

 

[Kroll]

Son had a tremendous season sharing the golden boot with Salah, like posters above surprised to see he's not included. Jarrod Bowen was also brilliant and had a consistent season whereas Bernardo sort of fizzled away in the latter half of the season.

If a centre forward needs to be picked, then it's probably 50/50 for either Kane or Ronaldo, both were underwhelming to be fair. So the changes I would make are Son and Bowen in for Thiago and Bernardo.

 

[KingKhanWC]

Spot on , great team.

Son did well but his team just finished 4th. Mane was crucial in the 2nd half keeping LFC chasing City.

 

[James]

One of the major issues I have with this team is the top two-centric view. It is mainly just City and Liverpool players + Ronaldo.

Clearly the likes of De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Salah and Alisson are world class players in brilliant form and thus are essentially automatic picks.

But very little is being viewed on a pound-for-pound basis.

There are many examples of players at Premier League teams who did not finish so highly in terms of the final divisional ranking, but they were stellar for their clubs and led them to relative achievement in other circumstances.

e.g.
Rice and Bowen: got West Ham punching above their weight and fired them back into Europe.
Raphinha: his goals, assists, and talismanic status kept Leeds United in the league.
Alain Saint-Maximin: the focal point of a Newcastle side with his creativity and blistering pace that helped them from the rock bottom 20th spot and certain relegation to a solid 11th position.
Maddison: superb in midfield for Leicester.
Zaha: a consistently excellent forward threat for Crystal Palace.
Son: don’t even get me started!

We need an Alternative XI of the Year!

 

[Marooned]

Not just Mane’s but the Liverpool PR overall is very strong. They are a fantastic team but some of the players are overrated as hell who will be exposed in a different system and let’s not pretend that they aren’t massive bottlers.

2018-19 PL, 2018 UCL Final, 2021-22 PL, 2022 UCL Final - same generation, 4 bottlejobs.

None of them were 'bottlejobs'. They weren't even the favourites for 3/4 of them. Only 22 ucl final, you can probably say they were slight favourites, but it's not like they were up against some underdogs. They were up against perhaps the biggest club on planet, which had walked it's way to la liga too.