Imperious Mo Salah odds-on for third PFA Footballer of the Year award
We’re approaching the final run-in for the 2024/25 season so we’re already thinking about who might succeed Phil Foden as the PFA player of the year. Or perhaps Foden will retain his crown. Hmmm.
Stranger things have happened – like for instance that time when Man United won the literal treble but David Ginola scored some nice goals while being very handsome and nipped in to pinch this award as assorted United stars carelessly split the vote. Anyone other than Mo Salah winning this season’s award would now rank right up alongside that one.
Here are the current favourites for this season’s prize, according to the latest best odds available at Oddschecker.
4=) Cole Palmer (Chelsea)
Form dropped right off a cliff along with Chelsea’s, leaving Palmer something of a forgotten man in the ‘race’ for this year’s individual gongs.
4=) Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool)
Has undoubtedly had an excellent season in that Liverpool midfield. Will undoubtedly not win the PFA award.
4=) Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool)
If Liverpool win the title – as they surely now will – Alexander-Arnold is pretty much guaranteed a place in the PFA Team of the Year before he goes gallivanting off to Madrid. But the big gong? From right-back? Not a chance.
4=) Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest)
It would be excellent but no. And we are already in 100/1 territory here.
3) Alexander Isak (Newcastle)
Best striker in the league at this time and a very understandable target for Liverpool, Arsenal and Barcelona and surely the closest thing to an actual viable rival Salah has here.
2) Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool)
Imperious at the heart of the Liverpool defence once more, but will likely miss out to Mo Salah if the title goes to the Reds because twas ever thus in the battle twixt attackers and defenders for individual gongs.
1) Mohamed Salah (Liverpool)
The brilliant Egyptian has had a spectacular season, a key factor in Liverpool themselves streaking clear at the top of the table under Arne Slot. If Liverpool win the title, as surely they now must, it’s hard to imagine Salah becoming less crucial to that.
May also benefit from being a more obvious standout at Liverpool than a lot of his key rivals are at their clubs. If Liverpool win the Premier League, it’s because Salah has been phenomenal. And he’s won it twice before so he has form.