As PFA Team of the Year voting slips start to arrive in players' mailboxes, many will be casting their votes before the major trophies are awarded, sometimes leading to surprising results.
Sir Alex Ferguson was left puzzled when Tottenham's David Ginola scooped the Player of the Year award in 1999 — a year when Manchester United clinched the Treble. However, Robbie Savage is jumping the gun and has assembled his Premier League Team of 2023-24 with a month of the campaign remaining.
He's opted for a 4-3-3 formation and football.london takes a look at Savage's his line-up:
Nailed down the Gunners’ No.1 spot ahead of Aaron Ramsdale when the pressure was immense to justify manager Mikel Arteta ’s biggest call. All the vital stats suggest Arteta got it right. Big shout-out to Guglielmo Vicario, who has had a good first season at Tottenham, and Aston Villa’s Emi Martinez.
Still the best in the country with a few signs of his pace waning. Until he got injured a few weeks ago, Kieran Trippier was having another excellent season at Newcastle.
Sorely tempted to pick both of the Gunners’ centre-backs as a pair, but they missed Saliba when he was injured on the run-in last season and he has been immense in big games against City and Liverpool this year.
It takes a special player to keep Gabriel out of my team as Saliba’s partner, but Van Dijk has been so consistent — despite injuries disrupting Liverpool’s back four so often. He was colossal in the Carabao Cup final, shepherding the Kop kids to a trophy against the odds.
In the cult of Ange Postecoglou’s revamp at Spurs, Udogie’s performances at left-back have been one of the biggest revelations. I’ve really enjoyed his sense of adventure from left-back, often supplementing Big Ange’s
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