The PFA Team Of The Year has been announced

SlickRic

Rose is a bit of a mad one with the likes of Fuchs, Cresswell and even Charlie Daniels about. but meh.

Go mad.

GavRedKing

Ozil over Alli or Payet for me but the rest looks decent.

StringerBell

Its a decent effort tbh

kfallon

No Lescott?

:P

Skylinehead

Huth for Morgan, Ozil for one of Payet/Alli, otherwise it's grand.

SlickRic

Ozil still suffers from several media outlets still spouting that he's 'lazy'.

also, Huth over Morgan if you're going for a Leicester CB. Morgan has a mistake or 2 in him quite consistently.

JPA

Aguero has been nominated once for player of the year and has never been in the team of the year. Sooooo.... this award has no merit.

Flint Fredstone

Usually these teams are way off but that looks decent enough. There's a good case for Smalling ahead of Morgan and I'd put Shaw in ahead of Rose just to annoy someone.

ahnowbrowncow

What does Aguero have to do to get into the team of the year? Scored five and six more than Kane and Costa last year respectively.

He's played a lot less games than vardy or kane this year and he'll probably outscore them by the end of the season.

PhlegmyMoses

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

What does Aguero have to do to get into the team of the year? Scored five and six more than Kane and Costa last year respectively.

He's played a lot less games than vardy or kane this year and he'll probably outscore them by the end of the season.

I'm guessing that Ageuro has been so consistently excellent that his achievements aren't as highlighted as some of the other strikers. It's bizarre logic really, but he'd nearly have to have a Ronaldo\Suarez type season to win POTY when many others have won it before him for much less. He is comfortably the best player in the PL and I'd say the awards system must rankle with him.

eagle eye

It's just plain ridiculous that Ozil isn't on that team. Danny Rose has 21 Premier league starts to date and hasn't look particularly good in a fair few of those so I don't understand how he makes it either.
Fuchs, Monreal, Cresswell and Kolarov would all be ahead of him for me. You could argue for Daniels and Van Aanholt as well.

eagle eye

Aguero is a class act too but you could argue for the other two along with him.

I'd consider De Bruyne to be unluckier to lose out than Aguero but it'd be easy not to pick him with the amount of time he missed.

niallo27

Assists are easily forgotten. 15 goals in 3 seasons for ozil is not to be forgotten either.

Rayne Wooney

I don't understand the Aguero talk, Kane and Vardy have been better this season. Team is good, maybe Ozil ahead of one of the two attacking midfielders.

Fair play to Morgan, championship team of the year 3 times and now PL team of the year

patmac

I'm felling nostalgic as there are more Man Utd players than Liverpool/Man City combined. Must be a while since so called 'big four' are so poorly represented, a true sign of what a great unpredictable season it is.

ricero

are the pfa awards tonight ?

eagle eye

Forgot all about Barkley too, very unlucky to lose out.

CSF

Poor Ozil. Stiff competition with Payet, Mahrez, Alli and Kante also in the midfield bracket but those are the brakes. Alli being English probably swung it for him in the end.

Big Aguero fan but couldn't justify including him ahead of Kane or Vardy this year. This was a good year in terms of standard.

Hammer Archer

In my (biased admittedly) opinion, Payet more than deserves his place. Think he's been involved in something like 24-25 of our goals this season and that was with him being out injured for two months from November to January.

The Backwards Man

All this proves every year is that footballers know fcuk all about football

rob316

Wouldn't be too sure of Bellerin, walker or clyne a better shout.

Giggsy11

Dembele should have been there instead of Alli and Fuchs/Creswell instead of Rose.

spock.

It's a fairer team than last season when Coutinho bizarrely made it.
Alli/Ozil is a coin flip, only change I'd make is Fuchs for Rose and possibly Smalling for Morgan.

tayto lover

No Aguero and no Ozil ?

Baffling.

Giggsy11

tayto lover wrote: »

No Aguero and no Ozil ?

Baffling.

Kane and Vardy had better seasons and rightly ahead of Aguero in the team of the season.

Bounty Hunter

Interestingly the best English born CB this year according to the PFA plays for Jamaica

I'd have Ozil in there but it'd be harsh for Alli to lose out I guess

ahnowbrowncow

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Kane and Vardy had better seasons and rightly ahead of Aguero in the team of the season.

They have? Aguero has has scored the same as vardy in a lot less playing time. One goal every 97 minutes, that's an amazing record.
Especially when compared to Kane's average of one goal every 125 minutes and Vardy's average of one goal every 135 minutes.

Rayne Wooney

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

They have? Aguero has has scored the same as vardy in a lot less playing time. One goal every 97 minutes, that's an amazing record.
Especially when compared to Kane's average of one goal every 125 minutes and Vardy's average of one goal every 135 minutes.

Aguero plays with a team full of 30-40 million pound players behind him.

Kane and Vardy have been better this season, I honesty don't see how you could argue otherwise. Even if Aguero is more talented on his day, they have had better seasons

ahnowbrowncow

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Aguero plays with a team full of 30-40 million pound players behind him.

Kane and Vardy have been better this season, I honesty don't see how you could argue otherwise. Even if Aguero is more talented on his day, they have had better seasons

You're argument that he is playing with more expensive players is null and void as kane and Vardy have played in better teams than man city this season.

We can actually flip your argument on its head and use it as another reason why Aguero should be included, he's been playing in the worst of those teams this season, whilst scoring the same amount of goals in less playing time.

Shanotheslayer

Giggsy11 wrote: »

Dembele should have been there instead of Alli and Fuchs/Creswell instead of Rose.

Dembele? Are you joking?

Alli has been instrumental in that Spurs team.



Wouldn't take Alli out for Ozil myself.

I think I saw a stat somewhere that Ozil only has two assists in 2016? Absolute fantastic start to the season but off the boil. Probably more to do with Arsenal in general tho.

Giggsy11

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

They have? Aguero has has scored the same as vardy in a lot less playing time. One goal every 97 minutes, that's an amazing record.
Especially when compared to Kane's average of one goal every 125 minutes and Vardy's average of one goal every 135 minutes.

They have. Both have scored important goals which won lot of points to the team. Aguero's stats are somewhat skewed by 5 goals against Newcastle.

Also Carroll has scored 9 goals and has 122 mins per goal. That doesn't mean he had better season than Kane/Vardy.

Giggsy11

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

Dembele? Are you joking?

Alli has been instrumental in that Spurs team.



Wouldn't take Alli out for Ozil myself.

I think I saw a stat somewhere that Ozil only has two assists in 2016? Absolute fantastic start to the season but off the boil. Probably more to do with Arsenal in general tho.

I'm not joking. Dembele has been great this season.

ahnowbrowncow

Giggsy11 wrote: »

They have. Both have scored important goals which won lot of points to the team. Aguero's stats are somewhat skewed by 5 goals against Newcastle.

Also Carroll has scored 9 goals and has 122 mins per goal. That doesn't mean he had better season than Kane/Vardy.

If he'd scored 22 goals at the same frequency I'm pretty sure he'd have been considered too.

SEPT 23 1989

Sergio has the gold records on the wall these players are only one hit wonders

Rayne Wooney

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

You're argument that he is playing with more expensive players is null and void as kane and Vardy have played in better teams than man city this season.

We can actually flip your argument on its head and use it as another reason why Aguero should be included, he's been playing in the worst of those teams this season, whilst scoring the same amount of goals in less playing time.

I didn't think I'd genuinely have to argue the fact that Kane and Vardy have been better than Aguero this season.

It's blatantly obvious to me, Lukaku is closer to Aguero than Aguero is to Kane and Vardy,

marklazarcovic

id have kasper in goals too

Flint Fredstone

marklazarcovic wrote: »

id have kasper in goals too

Course you would...

marklazarcovic

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

Course you would...

cant remember any howlers from him,most consistent imo,so ya,kasper in

Blatter

marklazarcovic wrote: »

id have kasper in goals too

De Gea has been comfortably better.

I'd have Smalling in for Morgan every day of the week and Ozil in for Alli/Payet. Rose at left back doesn't feel right but that's a tricky position to fill as there hasn't been anyone standing out there although there's been a few already mentioned that have performed marginally better.

tayto lover

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

I didn't think I'd genuinely have to argue the fact that Kane and Vardy have been better than Aguero this season.

It's blatantly obvious to me, Lukaku is closer to Aguero than Aguero is to Kane and Vardy,

Stop smoking that stuff :pac:

keeponhurling

Terrible anti-Irish bias, can't believe they didn't find a place for, eh, ahem.....somebody

marklazarcovic

Blatter wrote: »

De Gea has been comfortably better.

comfortably busier yes,better ? i disagree

Rayne Wooney

I reckon Mignolet deserves a shout, in the same way as Coutinho last year

CSF

Lloris would have been a worthy winner too, but no problem with De Gea being there at all.

Shanotheslayer

marklazarcovic wrote: »

comfortably busier yes,better ? i disagree

De Gea deserves it but I feel Schem is hard done by. United would be scrapping mid table without De Gea.

marklazarcovic

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

I reckon Mignolet deserves a shout, in the same way as Coutinho last year

you couldn't leave one thread alone without this crap eh

Milkers

It's a pretty fair team, I think Monreal has improved massively this year and been excellent but other than that not much to argue about. Morgan is a bit tokenist to represent the Leicester backline but can't say it's particularly undeserved either; they have been excellent as a unit.

Funny though I reckon you could pick another team of players who might give the selected team a fair run for their money, I'll go with:

Lloris, Monreal, Kompany, Smalling, Zabaleta, Drinkwater, Barkley, Ozil, De Bruyne, Sturridge, Aguero

eagle eye

Milkers wrote: »

It's a pretty fair team, I think Monreal has improved massively this year and been excellent but other than that not much to argue about. Morgan is a bit tokenist to represent the Leicester backline but can't say it's particularly undeserved either; they have been excellent as a unit.

Funny though I reckon you could pick another team of players who might give the selected team a fair run for their money, I'll go with:

Lloris, Monreal, Kompany, Smalling, Zabaleta, Drinkwater, Barkley, Ozil, De Bruyne, Sturridge, Aguero

Milkers

Just to be clear I'm not picking players who I think deserve to be in the PFA team of the year (obv Kompany and Sturridge have been way too injured) I'm just picking a team from current PL teams that might arguably beat the actual selected team if they played.

Paully D

eagle eye wrote: »

It's just plain ridiculous that Ozil isn't on that team. Danny Rose has 21 Premier league starts to date and hasn't look particularly good in a fair few of those so I don't understand how he makes it either.
Fuchs, Monreal, Cresswell and Kolarov would all be ahead of him for me. You could argue for Daniels and Van Aanholt as well.

:eek:

He is one of the worst full backs in the Premier League.

Liam O

It's pretty close to the mark. Smalling and Ozil deserve a shout but considering the teams involved I'd be more surprised if the likes of Morgan and Payet were back next year over those 2. The teams at the top are generally the most represented and this year is as close as I've come to not disagreeing with large parts of the team.