{"id":604524,"date":"2026-05-26T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604524\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:38:09","slug":"premier-league-player-of-the-season-have-your-say-in-our-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/604524\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League player of the season: Have your say in our poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My manager of the season &#8211; Daniel Farkepublished at 09:39 BST<\/p>\n<p>09:39 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Manager of the season<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ac19b0fc-d8e9-4783-9881-4b00877f7064.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Nizaar Kinsella<br \/>BBC Sport Chelsea reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were rumours about Daniel Farke\u2019s future before the season had even begun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leeds were reported to have explored other options before sticking with the German, and by December his side were in the relegation zone, with his position again under scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, a win against Chelsea and a draw with Liverpool in successive matches, in a new formation, helped steady the ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farke and Leeds did not look back from that point, finishing on 47 points in 14th place \u2014 closer to the European spots than the relegation zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It represents an impressive managerial achievement, given Leeds did not spend more than \u00a320m on an individual player and did not significantly strengthen the squad after winning the Championship last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Games: 38<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wins: 11<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Draws: 14<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Losses: 13<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Position: 14th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My manager of the season &#8211; Daniel Farkepublished at 09:39 BST 09:39 BST Manager of the season Nizaar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}