Salah And Rogers Scoop Pfa Player Of The Year Awards

Liverpool winger Mohamed Salah has won nan Professional Footballers' Association men's subordinate of nan twelvemonth award, pinch Aston Villa midfielder Morgan Rogers named young subordinate of nan year.

Sir Gareth Southgate is nan 2025 recipient of nan PFA merit grant for his contributions to shot and achievements pinch England.

Salah, 33, is nan first subordinate to triumph nan accolade connected 3 occasions aft playing a cardinal domiciled successful Liverpool's title occurrence past season.

The Egypt world was nan Premier League's apical scorer successful 2024-25 - registering 29 times and providing 18 assists.

Reds team-mate Alexis Mac Allister, Manchester United skipper Bruno Fernandes, Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, Chelsea guardant Cole Palmer and Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice were besides connected nan shortlist.

Salah besides won nan 2024-25 Premier League subordinate of nan play grant and was named nan Football Writers' Association (FWA) footballer of nan year.

Rogers is nan 5th Aston Villa typical to beryllium named young subordinate of nan season, pursuing successful nan footsteps of Andy Gray, Gary Shaw, Ashley Young and James Milner.

It is nan seventh successive twelvemonth that an English subordinate has won nan award.

Villa signed Rogers from Middlesbrough for a interest successful nan region of £15m successful February 2024 and he became a regular nether Unai Emery past season.

The 23-year-old featured 54 times crossed each competitions, scoring 14 times, arsenic Villa vanished sixth successful nan Premier League, reached nan quarter-finals of nan Champions League and nan semi-finals of nan FA Cup.

He was besides rewarded pinch a first elder England telephone up successful November, making his debut against Greece, and has gone connected to gain six caps.

Arsenal brace Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri; Dean Huijsen and Milos Kerkez, who person near Bournemouth for Real Madrid and Liverpool respectively; and Liam Delap, now astatine Chelsea aft catching nan oculus astatine Ipswich, were besides successful contention for nan award.

Meanwhile, goalkeeper James Trafford, who joined Manchester City past month, has been named Championship subordinate of nan twelvemonth aft keeping 29 cleanable sheets to thief Burnley decorativeness 2nd and unafraid automatic promotion to nan Premier League.

Striker Richard Kone - now connected nan books of Queens Park Rangers - won nan League One grant aft registering 18 times for Wycombe.

The League Two grant went to Bromley striker Michael Cheek, who won nan Golden Boot pinch 25 goals.

Southgate becomes nan 5th erstwhile England head to triumph nan merit grant since it was established successful 1974.

During his eight-year tenure, which ran from 2016 to 2024, Southgate took England to 4 awesome tournaments - reaching nan finals astatine Euro 2020 and Euro 2024 and nan semi-finals astatine nan 2018 World Cup.

Prior to being appointed arsenic head of England's elder side, Southgate spent 3 years astatine nan helm of nan Under-21s, processing early stars pinch nan Young Lions.

The 54-year-old is 1 of conscionable 3 managers to return complaint of 100 matches pinch England - taking his spot successful nan dugout connected 102 occasions.

Southgate handed debuts to 42 players - almost double that of immoderate different England head - helping to respire caller life into nan nationalist team.