{"id":486241,"date":"2024-08-12T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486241"},"modified":"2024-08-12T09:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:20:25","slug":"saka-and-palmer-nominated-for-pfa-mens-young-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/saka-and-palmer-nominated-for-pfa-mens-young-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Saka and Palmer nominated for PFA Men&#8217;s Young Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bukayo Saka of Arsenal and Cole Palmer of Chelsea have been nominated for the prestigious Professional Footballers&#8217; Association (PFA) Men&#8217;s Young Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Bukayo Saka, who won the award last season (2022-23), earned his nomination by scoring 16 goals and providing nine assists in the Premier League. The 22-year-old winger played a pivotal role for Arsenal and continued to impress on the international stage with England.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">These six players have been nominated for the PFA Young Player of the Year award \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vG5Nxm541H\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vG5Nxm541H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN UK (@ESPNUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNUK\/status\/1822913774271234218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Cole Palmer, also 22, recently transferred to Chelsea from Manchester City and had an impactful season, contributing to 33 goals, with 22 goals scored himself. Palmer&#8217;s performances, both in the Premier League and during England&#8217;s run to the Euro 2024 final, have been instrumental in earning him this nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Representing Manchester United on the PFA men&#8217;s shortlist are Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho, both of whom played significant roles in the team&#8217;s successes. Midfielder Mainoo, at just 19 years old, developed into an important part of Erik ten Hag&#8217;s first team and went on to feature in England&#8217;s Euros campaign. Mainoo also scored the second goal against Manchester City as United won the FA Cup final 2-1 at Wembley in May.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Garnacho, who got the first goal in the cup final, was a threat on both flanks for United last season. The 20-year-old Argentine forward scored 10 goals in all competitions, further establishing himself as one of the most exciting young players in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Olise, who moved from Crystal Palace to Bayern Munich in the summer, is also on the PFA list. Olise&#8217;s performances for Crystal Palace last season, where he consistently delivered crucial assists and goals, earned him recognition and a high-profile transfer to the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p>The award winners will be announced on Tuesday, 20 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bukayo Saka of Arsenal and Cole Palmer of Chelsea have been nominated for the prestigious Professional Footballers&#8217; Association (PFA) Men&#8217;s Young Player of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486242,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16881,20871],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[18843,20872],"acf":{"announce":"Man United's Kobe Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho are also on the list alongside Olise and Pedro","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486243,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486241\/revisions\/486243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486241"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486241"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}