{"id":1169183,"date":"2026-08-25T21:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1169183\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:16:21","slug":"bruno-fernandes-crowned-best-player-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1169183\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes crowned best player in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Fernandes has been crowned the Professional Footballers&#8217; Association Player of the Year for the 2025-2026 season, capping a superb campaign for the Manchester United star.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">You can discuss topics and news in greater depth in the &#8220;Kooora&#8221; forums<\/p>\n<p>Fellow players voted for the award, which Bruno collected today at the PFA&#8217;s annual ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He saw off five rivals to claim the prize. Manchester City had Erling Haaland and Rayan Cherki on the shortlist, while Arsenal boasted the biggest presence with three names: defender Gabriel Magalhaes, goalkeeper David Raya and midfielder Declan Rice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">You can discuss topics and news in greater depth in the &#8220;Kooora&#8221; forums<\/p>\n<p>The gong completes a clean sweep for Fernandes, who has already scooped the Premier League&#8217;s official player prize and the Football Writers&#8217; Association award in England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes has been crowned the Professional Footballers&#8217; Association Player of the Year for the 2025-2026 season, capping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1169184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[248017,748,155720,296808,393,4884,101,314353,16,15],"class_list":["post-1169183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-b-fernandes","tag-britain","tag-d-rice","tag-e-haaland","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-premier-league","tag-r-cherki","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117158227724620312","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}