Manchester City De Bruyne Beats Mane, Others To Scoop PFA Players Player Award

Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne beat Sadio Mane and other contenders to be crowned as the Professional Footballers’ Association’s (PFA)Players’ Player of the Year.

De Bruyne scooped the award to break a two-year run of Liverpool winners, with Virgil Van Dijk and Mohamed Salah having claimed the prize over the previous two seasons.

Mane was nominated alongside  Jordan Henderson Trent Alexander-Arnold, 2019 winner Virgil Van Dijk and Manchester City forward, Raheem Sterling

De Bruyne  registered 13 goals and a record-equalling 20 assists, was voted the campaign’s top performer by his peers.

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The Belgium midfielder after receiving his award thanked his club manager, Pep Guardiola for giving him a free role.

He said, “Most of the time he just lets me be me,” the 29-year-old said of Guardiola.

“We speak often about the team but in a lot of senses he knows when he gives the orders of what the team has to do that I will listen.

“But then on the other side he gives me a lot of freedom; I don’t know why, that’s just the way it goes between us.

“He knows in one way I will always put the team first and then obviously if I can help myself I’m going to do that.

“But he knows that I want the team to win, and if the team wins I will gain from it.

“So I think in that sense he feels fine and he trusts me completely.

“This is a big honour, to be voted by your colleagues, competitors from other teams who you always play against on the field. That they vote for you for best player; it’s amazing.

“It’s maybe strange that I’m the first one at City, seeing all the good players who played there before and who are still playing. But it’s nice to represent the club.”

De Bruyne who is on international assignment with the Belgium national team provided two assists as the Red Devils humiliated Iceland 5-1 in tnr UEFA Nations League.


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