Liverpool and Egypt superstar Mohamed Salah wins PFA Player of the Year

• Liverpool and Egypt forward Mohamed Salah has won the Men’s PFA Players’ Player of the Year award for 2022
• It is the second time Mohamed Salah has clinched such an award, having also claimed the prize in 2018
• Salah beats off competition from teammates Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mane, Man United's Cristiano Ronaldo and Harry Kane of Tottenham

Liverpool star Mohamed Salah has been crowned the Men’s Professional Footballers Association [PFA] Players’ Player of the Year award for 2021/2022 season.

The Egyptian king won the award ahead of teammate Sadio Mane, as well as Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne, and Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo.

Salah won the Premier League Golden Boot with 23 goals, sharing the accolade with Son Heung-min. He also made 13 assists.

What Mohamed Salah said after winning the award

Salah said upon collecting the award for the second time:

“Thank you very much, It’s always great to win a trophy. It’s big, very happy and very proud of it," he said, quoted by Euro Sport.

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“This is really good one to win, because it’s voted by players so when I think about it, of course I want the Premier League before everything, the Champions League as well. The Individual award shows you get what you work for. The team comes first, but winning the journalist and players one shows you played really good.”

"I had a space for one more. I kept two spaces, for the Golden Boot,” he admitted. ''I'm always keeping space and imagining the trophies are coming.”

The PFA Young Player of the Year award went to City midfielder Phil Foden, winning against a shortlist of Reece James, Conor Gallagher, Jacob Ramsey and Arsenal duo Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe.

The women’s award was won by Chelsea and Australia star Sam Kerr after a league-winning season.

Lauren Hemp of Manchester City was named Women's PFA Young Player of the Year.

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Sports Brief earlier reported that Liverpool pair Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane earned a spot in the PFA 2021-22 Team of the Season.

Despite missing out on the Premier League title to Manchester City in dramatic circumstances, Liverpool had the highest number of representation in the PFA Team of the Season, with six players.

Alisson Becker got the nod ahead of Man City's shot-stopper and compatriot Ederson Moraes in between the sticks while Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold was chosen in the right-back position also PFA Player of the Year nominee Virgil Van Dijk partners newly-signed Real Madrid defender Antonio Rudiger.