Apr 12
PFA Players Shortlist: Where’s Anderson, Rooney and Rio
The PFA Awards Shortlist is out. Those who haven’t seen it yet here’s the list. Have a look at it first.
PFA player of the year:
Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal)
Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal)
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
David James (Portsmouth)
PFA young player of the year
Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United)
Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal)
Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa)
Ashley Young (Aston Villa)
Micah Richards (Manchester City)
Now there will always be disagreements with the lists every year. But what makes things surprising is the absence of certain players on the list. Steven Gerrard inexplicably makes it into the list despite not doing much of note; Liverpool are fourth — and barely — in the table. So it’s not much to talk about this season. Torres, on the other hand, deserves his name on the shortlist. Ronaldo anyway looks like he’ll win the award. However it’s surprising that Rio Ferdinand or Wayne Rooney don’t make it to the list. It’s understood that Rooney had an underwhelming season by his high standards. But he’s had 11 league goals and 11 assists. Plus he clearly makes a hell lot of a difference to our side’s play when he on the pitch. He certainly has done a lot more than Steven Gerrard, despite his injury affected season.
And Rio Ferdinand? How the fuck isn’t he on the list?
In the young players’ list it’s surprising that some players, according to the PFA, are never too old. Fernando Torres is 24 years old. How in the world is he ‘young’. Or what is young anymore? Anderson has been the surprise package of the season, and considering his age and what he’s brought to the side in the absence of Scholes and Carrick at one point. He also had one of his better performances against the bigger teams, and that is a good metric to assess a players’ worth. Anderson did that especially against Liverpool and Arsenal.
So what do you think? Shouldn’t Anderson be on the PFA young players’ list? And how about Rio or Rooney?
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Park thrives on a 4-3-3 type formation.So i don’t blame him.
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Well sure Mr.Muhozi . Work + IE is a pain in the ass
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absolutely disgusted bout rio not being nominated, he must wonder what he has to do! bit like scholsey when he was on top of his game and henry kept winning it!
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Grognard, bendtner’s just no good. He’s the new aliadiere. He should have scored. The first header was all about fabregas’ pass, what a ball. He got the header all wrong. The second one was awful. A golden opportunity for any decent striker and he actually headed it down to the near post. Why! It actually annoyed me – hit it across the keeper you idiot. Easy. Look at torres’ goal for an example of what bendtner should have done. Bendtner didn’t misqueue the header, he chose the wrong option. He wasn’t unlucky, he was stupid.
Rio was the best player on the park. Lehmann was better than VDS, though both keepers were great. VDS was at fault for the goal, so in the end when a keeper makes a mistake and it leads to a goal that always takes something away from his performance. Same for a defender, but rio never made a mistake which led to a goal. He had one bad moment all game, where he took a swipe at a cross and almost scored an own goal. I don’t know where you’re getting ‘he almost cost us dearly twice’ from. He made vital blocks and tackles and was a class above pique. Pique was fairly awkward down the left side of the pitch, too one-footed. Hargreaves, i think, was the one who put in a great cross from the left for ronaldo in the first half, where park got in the way, and, ofcourse, he scored the free kick. He didn’t do enough to be MOTM, but i suppose he comes close only because he scored the winning goal.
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Did anyone see the HANDBALL from Adebayor for the 1st goal???
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You are certainly welcome to your opinions Tevez. I for one just don’t share them.
Madsman; I saw the handball and I am amazed nobody else did. It clearly went of his forearm. Let it not be said that Wenger doesn’t get a break to go his way.
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Chelsea 1 Wigan 1 Full Time
Heskey levels the score in injury time
Oh Yesssss! Credit to Bruce and Wigan who can expect a bottle or two of the finest in the post from Fergie.
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[Madsman]
I too saw the handball. I am amazed not to find a mention in any of the reports.
Brucey rocks!!! Bye bye Grant!
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I totally agree that Anderson and Ferdinand deserve to be on their respective lists….but wait doesn’t Vidic also deserves to be on the list…he’s been tremendous for us this season
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actually they deserve to be nominated
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