{"id":83715,"date":"2025-08-15T02:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/83715\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T02:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:50:07","slug":"forget-mohamed-salah-michael-owen-says-another-liverpool-star-will-win-player-of-the-season-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/83715\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget Mohamed Salah, Michael Owen says another Liverpool star will win Player of the Season award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Liverpool are the favourites to win the Premier League title in the 2025\/26 season.<\/p>\n

The Reds were the best team in the country last term. They won the league by 10 points in the end and were deservedly crowned the champions. <\/p>\n

The likes of Arsenal<\/a> and Manchester City<\/a>, who have both strengthened their squad, will be hoping to dethrone Liverpool<\/a>, but the Reds could prove to be too strong.<\/p>\n

Mohamed Salah<\/a> will be Arne Slot\u2019s main man again, but another player could outshine him this season.<\/p>\n

Michael Owen backs Florian Wirtz to win the Player of the Season award over Mohamed Salah in 2025\/26<\/p>\n

Salah was one of the best players in the world last season. <\/p>\n

The Egypt international was the biggest reason why Liverpool won the title in 2024\/25. He directly contributed to 57 goals last term, 47 of which came in the Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Salah deservedly won the EA Sports Player of the Season award at the end of the campaign, and many people feel he is the favourite to retain that award. <\/p>\n

However, Michael Owen<\/a>, who knows what it takes to win the Player of the Season award, thinks another Liverpool star will win it in the upcoming campaign \u2013 Florian Wirtz<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He told the Premier League\u2019s official website<\/a>: \u201cI think he\u2019ll be top of the assists and I think he has got loads of ability \u2013 he plays in a position where he is going to be involved in so much of the good stuff that Liverpool do. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think if he adapts to the Premier League, then he could be absolutely anything and one of the stars of the show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alan Shearer, on the other hand, thinks Salah will win it again, while Don Hutchinson believes Virgil van Dijk<\/a> will get the award. <\/p>\n

It remains to be seen if Wirtz can prove Owen right by outshining the two veteran Liverpool superstars.<\/p>\n

\"FlorianPhoto by Paul Harding \u2013 The FA\/The FA via Getty ImagesFlorian Wirtz has already shown one positive sign at Liverpool<\/p>\n

Wirtz is a phenomenal player.<\/p>\n

The German was absolutely outstanding in the Bundesliga at Bayer Leverkusen, and there is no reason why he can\u2019t be a star in the Premier League too. <\/p>\n

Owen thinks Wirtz will provide more assists than any other player in the division in the upcoming campaign, and he already has one to his name from the Community Shield.<\/p>\n

The way Wirtz linked up with Hugo Ekitike<\/a> against Crystal Palace at Wembley was a massive positive, and we think those two players will combine on plenty of occasions in the upcoming season. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re sure Salah will back himself to win the Player of the Season award in 2025\/26, but if Wirtz beats him to the accolade, it would mean that Liverpool have had another brilliant campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool are the favourites to win the Premier League title in the 2025\/26 season. The Reds were the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3339,17224,3450,58270,29564,403,99],"class_list":["post-83715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-english-premier-league","tag-florian-wirtz","tag-liverpool","tag-michael-owen","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}