Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah wins PFA Player of the Year

Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has gained his second PFA Participant of the Yr trophy (Photograph: PA)

Liverpool ahead Mohamed Salah has gained the Males’s PFA Gamers’ Participant of the Yr award for 2022.

The 29-year-old claimed the award, that was voted for by his friends, forward of teammates Sadio Mane and Virgil van Dijk, in addition to Manchester Metropolis’s Kevin De Bruyne, Tottenham’s Harry Kane and Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo.

Salah scored 23 targets, sharing the Premier League Golden Boot with Son Heung-min, and made 13 assists because the Reds have been pipped to the title by Metropolis.

It's the Egyptian’s second such award, having additionally claimed the prize in 2018.

‘It’s at all times a terrific honour to win a trophy, particular person or collective, and this one is fairly massive so I’m very glad, very proud,’ Salah mentioned upon accumulating the award.

Man Metropolis’s Phil Foden gained the Younger Participant of the Yr award (Photograph: PA)

‘This one is a really particular one to win as a result of it’s voted for by the gamers. In fact I wished the Premier League earlier than the rest, Champions League as properly, however individually it reveals that you just’ve labored very laborious and also you get what you're employed for.

‘I made positive I had sufficient house in my trophy cupboard at house for this one! I at all times maintain an area for an additional trophy, Golden Boot was the identical. I prefer to think about that I can get one other one and fill the areas.’

Liverpool’s supervisor Jurgen Klopp added his congratulations to Salah, saying: ‘What I actually love about this prize is it’s the one which’s voted for by the gamers. That’s the one prize you need to be focused on.

‘With Mo it’s the numbers, scoring probably the most targets and having probably the most assists with all of the issues, ups and downs all through the season. He deserves it completely.

‘Once we first scouted him he wasn’t the purpose monster he's now, so I used to be very excited to have the possibility to work with him. He’s stuffed with need, he’s a piece horse. Alongside Milly [James Milner] he’s the primary in and the final out at coaching.’

In the meantime, Metropolis’s Phil Foden claimed the Males’s PFA Younger Participant of the Yr award forward of Arsenal duo Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe, Chelsea’s Reece James, Crystal Palace loanee Conor Gallagher and Aston Villa’s Jacob Ramsey.

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