Cole Palmer and Mohamed Salah have been left out of the 2023/24 PFA Team of the Year. In an XI dominated by Manchester City and Arsenal players, the pair were glaring omissions in the side voted for by fellow Premier League players.
There was some consolation for Chelsea forward Palmer, who scored 22 top-flight goals last season in his maiden season at Stamford Bridge.
He picked up the PFA Young Player of the Year award, while Phil Foden received the Player of the Year honour.
Salah struck 18 times to take his overall Premier League tally to 155, a number since raised to 156 after striking at Ipswich on Saturday. But like Palmer, there was no place for the Egyptian forward in the front three.
Instead it was Erling Haaland and Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins who were named alongside Foden. The Norwegian hit 27 goals to helo City retain the title, while Watkins was joint fourth in the charts with Foden and Dominic Solanke on 19.
In goal, Arsenal’s David Raya got the nod, but one of Salah’s team-mates was deemed worthy of a place oin the back four. Virgil van Dijk was the only Livepool player in the line-up, joined in the back four by two more Gunners in William Saliba and Gabriel Magalhaes and City’s Kyle Walker.
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