Two Arsenal, Manchester City stars among nominees for Premier League Player of the Season
Two Arsenal and Manchester City players are among the eight nominees for the 2023-24 Premier League Player of the Season award.
Both the Gunners and the Citizens have followed up last season's title battle with another tantalising top-of-the-table tussle this term, thanks to the sensational form of a number of their first-team stars.
Reigning champions Man City, bidding to win an unprecedented fourth successive title, have continued to dazzle on the Premier League stage this season and two of their standout performers have been attacking duo Phil Foden and Erling Haaland.
Foden, who was recently named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year, is enjoying arguably his best season in a Man City shirt having contributed with 24 goals and 11 assists in 49 appearances across all competitions, including 16 strikes and eight assists in 32 Premier League outings thus far.
Haaland, meanwhile, is in the driving seat to win back-to-back Golden Boots having scored 25 Premier League goals in 28 games, despite missing around two months of the campaign through injury. The Norwegian has scored two hat-tricks, including his four-goal haul against Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend and has also chipped in with five assists, making him one of only three players to reach 30 goal involvements this term.
Both Foden and Haaland are joined on the eight-man shortlist by Arsenal pair Martin Odegaard and Declan Rice, the latter has made an impressive start to life at the Emirates Stadium following his big-money move from West Ham United last summer.
Rice, Odegaard in the mix for PL awardRice has quickly established himself as a key cog in Mikel Arteta's machine, transforming from a defensive midfielder into a box-to-box
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