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The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/team\/liverpool\/lId4TMwf\/\">Liverpool<\/a> forward was instrumental in his side\u2019s Premier League title win, scoring 29 goals and providing 18 assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/salah-mohamed\/08FBycgB\/\">33-year-old<\/a> Egyptian also won the Football Writers\u2019 Association Footballer of the Year award, earning nearly 90% of the vote and is considered the frontrunner for the PFA honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joining him on the shortlist are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool)<\/strong> \u2013 Salah teammate had a strong first season at Anfield.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/rice-declan\/zkQ8Cm6n\/\">Declan Rice<\/a><strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/team\/arsenal\/hA1Zm19f\/\">Arsenal<\/a>)<\/strong> \u2013 Delivered a career-best nine goals and 10 assists in 52 appearances.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/palmer-cole\/h8agbDt7\/\">Cole Palmer<\/a><strong>(Chelsea)<\/strong> \u2013 Despite Chelsea&#8217;s struggles, Palmer impressed and also won the PFA Young Player of the Year.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/isak-alexander\/p41IV42c\/\">Alexander Isak<\/a> <strong>&nbsp;(Newcastle)<\/strong> \u2013 Netted 23 goals and helped end the club\u2019s 56-year trophy drought with a League Cup win.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/fernandes-bruno\/GYvAMDm2\/\">Bruno Fernandes<\/a><strong> (Man United)<\/strong> \u2013 One of United\u2019s few standouts in a disappointing season, with eight goals and 10 assists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The winners will be announced at the PFA Awards ceremony in Manchester on August 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah \u00a0has been named among the six nominees for the 2023\/24 PFA Men\u2019s Player of the Year award. The Liverpool forward was instrumental in his side\u2019s Premier League title win, scoring 29 goals and providing 18 assists. The 33-year-old Egyptian also won the Football Writers\u2019 Association Footballer of the Year award, earning nearly 90% of the vote and is considered the frontrunner for the PFA honour. Joining him on the shortlist are: The winners will be announced at the PFA Awards ceremony in Manchester on August 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,159,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-football-news","category-premier-league-football-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Salah on shortlist for PFA Player of the Year award - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Liverpool forward, Mohamed Salah\u00a0has been named among the six nominees for the 2023\/24 PFA Men\u2019s Player of the Year award.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/salah-on-shortlist-for-pfa-player-of-the-year-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salah on shortlist for PFA Player of the Year award - 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