Bruno Fernandes has been named the Premier League’s Player of the Season after a campaign that helped drag Manchester United to third place and a return to the Champions League.
The 31-year-old Portuguese midfielder has registered 20 assists this season, equalling a record jointly held by Arsenal’s Thierry Henry and Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne. He also scored eight goals and created 132 chances, the highest figure in the division and well clear of Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai, who was second with 89.
Fernandes was nominated alongside Arsenal’s title-winning trio of Gabriel, David Raya, and Declan Rice, Manchester City pair Erling Haaland and Antoni Semenyo, Nottingham Forest midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White, and Brentford striker Igor Thiago.
The award follows his Football Writers’ Association Player of the Year honour earlier this month, and a fifth United Player of the Year award. He now has the chance to break the Premier League assist record outright when United travel to Brighton and Hove Albion on Sunday in the season’s final round of fixtures.
