{"id":467621,"date":"2026-05-26T10:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467621\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:43:09","slug":"premier-league-player-of-the-season-have-your-say-in-our-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/467621\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League player of the season: Have your say in our poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My player of the season &#8211; Bruno Fernandespublished at 10:43 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:43 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dbbc71db-9f26-48c8-81be-402f406e5682.png.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Simon Stone<br \/>BBC Sport Chief Football News Reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There has been a lot of debate over this in<br \/>\nvarious quarters because the belief seems to be that someone from Arsenal<br \/>\nshould get it because they are the champions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I don\u2019t view the situation like<br \/>\nthat at all. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fernandes is someone you would pay to watch play. He makes risky<br \/>\npasses, he creates goals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His ability is not to defend the goal, it is working<br \/>\nout ways to get the ball into it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He started the season in a deeper position \u2013<br \/>\nto the detriment of Kobbie Mainoo \u2013 and did well. He was restored to a more<br \/>\noffensive area by Michael Carrick and his numbers went up even more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Do I think<br \/>\n\u2018most assists\u2019 is a thing? I\u2019m not sure. But I do know Manchester United would<br \/>\nhave got nowhere near to finishing third without him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My player of the season &#8211; Bruno Fernandespublished at 10:43 BST 10:43 BST Simon StoneBBC Sport Chief Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-467621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467621","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=467621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}