{"id":456144,"date":"2026-05-19T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456144\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:19:09","slug":"gary-neville-picks-more-man-city-than-arsenal-players-in-toty-and-one-obvious-man-utd-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/456144\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Neville picks more Man City than Arsenal players in TOTY and one obvious Man Utd star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Neville has omitted Arsenal right-back Jurrien Timber from his Premier League Team of the Season, but Jamie Carragher has not, with the two Sky Sports pundits also including Manchester United attacking midfielder Bruno Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/arsenal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> have been the best team in the Premier League this season and could become the champions of England for the first time since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta\u2019s side have also reached the final of the Champions League, where they will face last season\u2019s champions, Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>As Arsenal march towards glory, former Manchester United star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/gary-neville\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Neville<\/a> and ex-Liverpool ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/jamie-carragher\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Carragher<\/a> have been picking their respective Team of the Season.<\/p>\n<p>Just as you expect, both the Sky Sports pundits have chosen a number of Arsenal players,<\/p>\n<p>Both Neville and Carragher believe that Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya has been the best player in his position in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-carragher-selfish-salah-man-utd-hero-ronaldo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool: Carragher compares \u2018selfish\u2019 Salah to Man Utd hero after Slot \u2018bomb\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two pundits have picked Arsenal centre-backs William Saliba and Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p>Former Liverpool defender Carragher believes that Arsenal star Jurrien Timber has been the best right-back in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n<p>However, former Man Utd right-back Neville has picked Matheus Nunes of Manchester City instead.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Neville has picked more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man City<\/a> players than Arsenal stars in his Team of the Season.<\/p>\n<p>Bernardo Silva, Nico O\u2019Reilly, Antoine Semenyo, Jeremy Doku and Erling Haaland are the other Man City players in the former Man Utd star\u2019s Team of the Season.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-maintains-place-as-biggest-club-in-england-with-huge-kit-launch-plan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool maintains place as biggest club in England with huge kit launch plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neville also believes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd<\/a> attacking midfielder Bruno Fernandes deserves a place in the Team of the Season, and Carragher agrees.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher, too, has picked Fernandes as his only Man Utd player in his Team of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Sports pundit has also picked O\u2019Reilly, Semenyo, Haaland and Silva in his team.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher added that he would pick Rice over Fernandes as the Premier League Player of the Season.<\/p>\n<p>The pundit explained: \u201cNo, I don\u2019t quite understand it and I\u2019m a huge fan of Bruno.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when I\u2019m deciding on Player of the Year and you\u2019re picking a player whose games this season have not had any real jeopardy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I\u2019d go with\u00a0Declan Rice. You think of the\u00a0Champions League\u00a0semi-finals, I think he was outstanding against\u00a0Atletico Madrid\u00a0and he\u2019s been a driving force for\u00a0Arsenal\u00a0and the reason he dropped off a bit around the\u00a0Man City\u00a0games and the cup final was probably fatigue was because they were constantly playing midweek games because they\u2019re in all the elite competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018With\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0they went out in the first round of both cup competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t have Europe which is nothing to do with Bruno, but I can\u2019t think of many big games this season that Bruno\u2019s been involved in and you going in thinking this is on the line and he\u2019s got to produce here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He\u2019s had a fantastic season but no, I would go with Declan Rice because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Neville and Carragher have chosen Arsenal and England international midfielder Declan Rice.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher\u2019s Team of the Season<\/p>\n<p>Brentford striker Igor Thiago also finds a spot in Carragher\u2019s line-up.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Carragher &amp; Gary Neville reveal their Premier League Team of the Season! \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/keGFfldZiE\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/keGFfldZiE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/2056444450495184943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MAILBOX: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/chelsea-xabi-alonso-odd-match-mailbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea and Xabi Alonso an \u2018odd match\u2019 as Klopp comparison made<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Neville has omitted Arsenal right-back Jurrien Timber from his Premier League Team of the Season, but Jamie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15133,914,1100,61,60,8579,917,43,1102,112],"class_list":["post-456144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-front-page","tag-home-page","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}