{"id":580208,"date":"2026-04-02T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580208\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:49:08","slug":"player-of-the-season-favourites-who-should-win-premier-league-award-rice-gabriel-fernandes-semenyo-thiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580208\/","title":{"rendered":"Player of the season favourites: Who should win Premier League award? Rice, Gabriel, Fernandes, Semenyo, Thiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Who will win the Premier League player of the season?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That won&#8217;t be announced until towards the end of May but we already have a pretty good idea of the contenders, based on players&#8217; performances so far this campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> are leading the way in the title race and should they win, the likes of defender Gabriel and midfelder Declan Rice will surely be in contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there have been other standout performers this season, including the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a>&#8216;s Bruno Fernandes, and perhaps somewhat more unexpected stars like Igor Thiago and Antoine Semenyo will likely be in the mix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport take a closer look at who could be in line for the award before asking its reporters who they would pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">You also get the chance to vote for your winner below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who will win the Premier League player of the season? That won&#8217;t be announced until towards the end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-580208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}