Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has again come up in the conversations after the PFA Awards 2024 as Phil Foden won the PFA Players’ Player of the Year award.
Professional Footballers’ Association, also known as the PFA which is the players’ trade union, organises an award ceremony, the winners of which is determined via an annual poll.
The 2024 PFA Awards ceremony concluded this Tuesday as Manchester City star Phil Foden was voted the Player of the Year awards for the 2023-24 season.
After an admirable season with the Sky Blues where the English attacker scored career-high 19 goals and eight assists in the Premier League, the two-time PFA Young Player of the Year award winner won the senior title for the first time.
The 24-year-old beat his teammate and the reigning champion Erling Haaland to lift the accolade.
Foden became the third City player to win the award in the last five years. His another teammate, Kevin De Bruyne, won the award twice in a row for the 2019-20 and the 2020-21 season.
However, there has been only one player who has been able to make his mark amid the Manchester City dominance.
Mohamed Salah and his amazing PFA Awards achievement
Mohamed Salah is the only player who has won the award in the last five years despite City dominance.
The Egyptian forward won the PFA Player’s Player of the Year award in 2022 after his individually brilliant 2021-22 season.
Salah is also the only Liverpool player who has secured his name in the list of the winners twice, winning it first time back in 2018.
Apart from the 32-year-old winger, three other Liverpool greats namely Steven Gerrard in 2006, Luis Suarez in 2014 and Virgil van Dijk in 2019 has been elected as the winner in this century.
Van Dijk has also been been elected in the PFA Men’s Team of the Year this year for the fourth time in his Premier League career.
Salah is one of the only seven players who has won this award twice along with Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Kevin De Bruyne, Mark Hughes and Alan Shearer.
These records have brought up the Reds’ attacker’s name in conversations and shows that why he is regarded so highly in the world and among the fans.
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