kamikaze wrote:

no one in your 2nd group is a POY-type player. as for your first group, drogba, gerrard, lampard and ferdinand are all now past their primes. torres is at a good age but injuries may have taken their toll - we'll see. that leaves rooney and fabregas, who are the two best players in the league for me.

Oh right. Well, Barcelona and Madrid have a monopoly on those players at the moment. It's a shame but it's one of those things that I don't think will change for a few more years.

Still wouldn't call it a 'pathetic list' though because it is a different turn of phrase from 'there aren't any POTY types'. And the general standard of players is still better than all the other leagues which is what I was trying to say when I bought up Evra, Ivanovic, Arshavin and co even if there's no outstanding talent around.

invisibleman18 wrote:

Team of the year will be something like:

Van der Saar

Sagna
Ferdinand
Vidic
Bale

Scholes
Gerrard
Bale

Tevez
Rooney
Bale

😆 😆

invisibleman18 wrote:

Team of the year will be something like:

Van der Saar

Sagna
Ferdinand
Vidic
Bale

Scholes
Gerrard
Bale

Tevez
Rooney
Bale

Where is Rafael?

Iloveyouarsenewenger wrote:

Where is Rafael?

BALE!

I'm sorry - did someone say something?

There's been a leak that Wilshere has won the young POTY 🙂

...But it also said Bale won POTY 😐 :hmm: :\

That's exactly what I thought would happen. Wilshere deserves it without question, Bale winning is a joke, really it is. Hope the part about Jack is true anyway.

Bale winning would be the worst decision since....errr....Giggs winning.

Must be a Welshman pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Bale had a good game at Inter. This was not in the Premier League 😆

What else did he do?

I think he scored a good goal around November time...?

Ricky1985 wrote:

Must be a Welshman pulling the strings behind the scenes.

Ramsey to win POTY soon?

I could live with that! More likely that Giggs gets it again at 39.

Tim wrote:

I think he scored a good goal around November time...?

He also got that one assist that one time. And that was all she wrote in terms of goal creation over the course of the entire Premier League season.

bale winning it would be shocking. he's a guy who literally did not win a match for like 30 consecutive appearances, who's had maybe 4 or 5 excellent games in his career. i'm not even sure that's hyperbole.

GM, i agree with your point about overall quality in the league. but to me, not having any POTY-types in a POTY list, makes it a pathetic list.

Happy for Jack anyway.

Bale POTY?
😆

I guess maybe if your idea of a year is a few weeks before Christmas.

Just further goes to prove that footballers are pretty thick and don't know very much about the game.

Bale winning it is a farce, but this award is always a farce.

Anyone else think Bale's two performances against Inter won him the award?

Not like there were any other standout candidates.

Why so surprised?