Are you on crack? What?
Was he captain of the European, World and soon to be League Champions. If not then I don’t see the comparison.
You're holding his potential win of POTY as some sort of example as why he's an amazing player. I'm saying Scott Parker won it, playing in a shit team, with shit players, who won feck all.
What kind of criteria is that
yeah, couple of goals and assists in recent weeks has now made him the hipster choice for POTY from a lot of the english journalists and pundits like shearer. Bookies have reacted to thisOnce these journalists builds the narrative, train is hard to stop.
Well...does it not indicate something good about Henderson? He's captaining the best side in the world. That might indicate he's better than 'decent'.
A joke? I agree there's a debate around the subject but he's been very good this season and has been in the form of his life since Christmas in a team that wins every week without Fabinho alongside him.
He won't though. He's nowhere near that good. Liverpool have 5/6 better players themselves.Best player in La Liga: Messi
Best player in Ligue 1: Mbappe
Best player in Serie A: Ronaldo
Best player in Bundesliga: Lewa
Best player in the Prem: Henderson
How can we argue that the PL is the best league in the world if Henderson wins player of the year. He isn’t even in the top 5 players on Merseyside.
He's not even been the 4th best player on his own team. Nor does have the outsized impact and importance of Van Dijk last season. A good run of form, during which he was still not your best player anyways, should not be enough to make him a POTY candidate
Am I the only one who doesn’t think De Bruyne is as good as painted? Like he’s clearly phenomenal, absolutely world class etc - but many of his best performances seem to be when teams, for some utterly bizarre reason, give him the complete freedom of the pitch (Arsenal, there was another team as well a few weeks ago). He struggles a fair amount when not given this freedom to operate. He typifies Man City in many way - they can absolutely obliterate a team 9-0, 4-0 etc but then will struggle to pull something out when really needed.I mean, the POTY right now is De Bruyne and it's not particularly close
But if you want to keep giving it to liverpool players, there's at least 4 better choices than Henderson
Come on
It's a league. Every game is equal. De Bruyne has been levels above everyone else individually with the possible exception of Mahrez, who played half the minutes. He's in the midst of an 14/15 Hazard, 17/18 Salah kind of season
World Champions ffs.
De Bruyne might well be the best player in the league on his day, this season he is having is nowhere near the 17/18 Salah. That was a very special season, broke the record for most goals in a 38 game season, totaling 43 goals & assists combined. De Bruyne is having a very good season, that's about it.
Bar Ronaldo, he had defeated all of them recently. I would definitely force our players to watch that second leg of the dippers vs barca just to fire them up.Best player in La Liga: Messi
Best player in Ligue 1: Mbappe
Best player in Serie A: Ronaldo
Best player in Bundesliga: Lewa
Best player in the Prem: Henderson
How can we argue that the PL is the best league in the world if Henderson wins player of the year. He isn’t even in the top 5 players on Merseyside.
Forgot he played for the France national team
Has De Bruyne been at that level consistently for all the games of the season? It could be argued that De Bruyne's form has fluctuated much like cities but that Henderson's form is consistent and from when I've watched him he is a driving force behind Liverpool's successful run. Technically I would place De Bruyne as a better player but it's not all about technical ability. I would have thought the player of the year would have to come from liverpool this season because to be fair they are 22 points clear of the pack which suggests they are head and shoulders above others. If you look at the team and the consistent performers you would look at Allison, TAA, VVD, Henderson, Mane, Salah and Firmino. I would select any one of these for POTY but then I'm biased.
Most of them
Considering Salah won it in 17/18, it seems an incredible individual season still trumps other considerations
Nice link. If Henderson is a genuine contender for Player of the Year, then it's basically following the same campaign that saw Parker win when a few ex-professionals and journalists collectively decided he was underrated and, as a proper English pro playing the best football of his career, should be recognised appropriately.
If all games are equal as you state then I would say that De Bruyne's consistency has not been there for all of the games. He has had absolutely superb games and then fallen short in a few. It could be that the POTY is selected on the basis of an outstanding season. De Bruyne has about 8 goals and 14 assists this season but Salah had almost a goal a game in the 17/18 season. I dont think De Bruyne has hit that level this season. There is of course still time but I think the consistent excellent performance of some of the liverpool players this year is just ahead of all other players.
Best team in the world, then. That better?
If I was cynical I'd say it fits the narrative for the media at the moment.
He didn't, he won young player of the year when he was like 24. He was in the team of the year once later in his career.
Decent post, it's good to see some people can recognise the qualities he brings to this Liverpool team and how good he has been, without having to be on a par with the likes of De Bruyne ability wise. He is thriving in a system designed to get the most out of the front 3 and full backs, and he has been one of the driving forces behind an excellent team this season.
He won player of the year once, 2010-11 season
FWA Player of the Year you mean. I thought you were talking of the PFA award voted for by the players. I don't pay much attention to the FWA award as it can be sentimental.
De Bruyne has 15 assist and is almost certainly going to break the PL single-season assists record, he's THE best playmaker and creator in the world and has been consistently the best player on the pitch in more games than anyone esle. He's having an historical season for an attacking playmaker in the PL, the best we've seen in two decades so far
