The nominees for the 2024-25 Premier League Player of the Season have been announced. On 24 May, the prize will be awarded to the most outstanding player in the competition across 2024-25.
Manchester City may have provided the last four winners of the award, with Kevin De Bruyne winning it twice in that period, but none of their players made the eight-strong nominee list this time around.
Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk are included in the 2024-25 nominations; they’re the only previous winners among the eight nominees. Will either become just the fifth player to win the POTS award twice, or can one of the other six prevail?
Here, we assess the stats behind the nominees’ respective seasons, outlining why they deserve to be in the running for the 2024-25 Premier League Player of the Season award.
Morgan Gibbs-White
Morgan Gibbs-White has played a key part in Nottingham Forest’s excellent Premier League campaign, which has seen them already secure European football for next season.
One of two Forest players among the eight nominees (more on the other later…), Gibbs-White’s performances helped him earn an England call-up last year, before making his senior international debut for the Three Lions in September.
Gibbs-White has contributed six goals and eight assists in Forest’s quest for a shock top-five finish, becoming the only player to tally 10+ goal involvements in three consecutive Premier League seasons for the club.
No Forest player has created as many chances as Gibbs-White has, both overall (50) and from open play (48), while his tally of 58 shots in bettered by only Chris Wood (58).
Gibbs-White’s importance in Forest’s attack is further highlighted by him having the most open-play attacking sequence involvements in 2024-25, playing a part in 141 sequences that led to a shot for his side.
Ryan Gravenberch
Some weren’t sure if he’d be a success at Liverpool following an unspectacular first campaign under Jürgen Klopp, but Arne Slot has elevated Ryan Gravenberch‘s performances to another level since taking over as manager last summer.
Moving him deeper in midfield from a number 8 to a number 6 has proved a revelation for Liverpool, who were criticised for not bringing in another defensive midfielder last summer. Slot would have been aware of Gravenberch’s talent having come across him on numerous occasions in the Dutch Eredivisie, and his faith in the former Ajax star has paid dividends.
Out of possession, Gravenberch has been key to Liverpool winning the ball back from opponents high up the pitch this season. The Dutchman has made more high turnovers than any other player at the club (44) in the Premier League, with eight of those leading to shots.
No Liverpool player has won possession back from opponents as often as Gravenberch (185) in the Premier League this season, while his tally of interceptions (57) is the second most in the competition behind only West Ham’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka (61).
Alexander Isak
Nominated for this award for the second season in a row, Alexander Isak will be hoping his improved goalscoring form in 2024-25 will hand him success this time around.
His 23 top-flight goals for Newcastle United this season is two more than he managed last term (21), while only Andrew Cole (34 in 1993-94), Les Ferdinand (25 in 1995-96) and Alan Shearer (25 in 1996-97) have scored more in a single Premier League campaign for the Magpies. Excluding penalties, Isak’s 19 league goals in 2024-25 is the joint most with Salah and Erling Haaland.
His ability to find good shooting positions means he’s averaging 0.58 non-penalty expected goals (xG) per 90 this season. Among the 35 players to score 8+ non-penalty goals this campaign, that’s the second highest behind only Haaland (0.65). This has helped him convert over one-in-five of such shots (20.7%).
Isak isn’t just a fantastic goalscorer, he works incredibly hard off the ball, too. Only Dominic Solanke (538) has applied more pressures in the final third than the Sweden international (438), with 100 of those resulting in a turnover of possession – again, only Solanke (107) can top this.
Should Isak win the award, he’d become the first ever Newcastle player to do so and just the second Swedish player to be named as Premier League Player of the Year after Freddie Ljungberg in 2001-02.
Bryan Mbeumo
Bryan Mbeumo is the first ever Brentford player to be nominated for the Premier League Player of the Season award, but he’s fully justified his position among the eight nominees after a brilliant campaign for the Bees.
One of only two players – with defender Nathan Collins – to start every Premier League game for Brentford this term, the Cameroon international has been a driving force for the club. With two games left to play, Mbeumo sits level with Yoane Wissa at the top of Brentford’s scoring charts on 18 goals.
However, Mbeumo has added greater creative value, registering seven assists to Wissa’s three and creating more chances (67) than any other Brentford player in 2024-25.
His next aim is to become just the third Brentford player to reach 20 goals in a top-flight league season, after Ivan Toney (20 in 2022-23) and Dave McCulloch (26 in 1935-36, 31 in 1936-37 and 26 in 1937-38).
Mbeumo’s work rate has seen him cover 367.9km across his 36 Premier League appearances this season, with only Newcastle’s Bruno Guimarães (396.7km) running further in the competition in 2024-25. His tally of 816 sprints ranks him third behind only full-backs Daniel Muñoz (850) and Antonee Robinson (828), while no player in the Premier League has made more off-the-ball runs than he has (976).
Although he may be considered an underdog for the Premier League Player of the Season award – given the calibre of fellow nominees – Mbeumo has undoubtedly earned his place on the shortlist. Should he claim the prize, he would become just the second African player to win the award, following in the footsteps of Salah in 2017-18.
Declan Rice
Although Arsenal’s season will ultimately end without a trophy, Declan Rice has proven he was worth every penny of the reported £100 million it cost for the Gunners to prise him away from West Ham in July 2023.
The 2024-25 Premier League campaign has been his best in terms of creativity, with 56 chances created and 5.5 expected assists his highest ever tallies in a top-flight season since debuting in 2016-17 for West Ham.
Much of his creative threat has come from his wicked set-piece deliveries. Only Andreas Pereira (37) and Bruno Fernandes (29) have created more chances from set-plays than Rice (26) this season, while no one has generated more expected goals from corners and indirect free-kicks than the Arsenal midfielder (3.3 xG).
Rice has remained just as essential for Mikel Arteta’s side without the ball. He leads all Arsenal players for possession regains per 90 minutes (4.9) and ranks second behind only captain Martin Ødegaard (11.3km) for distance covered per 90 (11.1km) among teammates with at least 1,500 Premier League minutes.
Mohamed Salah
Nearing 33 years old and playing his eighth Premier League season, few would have expected Mohamed Salah to eclipse his feats across previous campaigns coming into 2024-25 under new boss Slot. Yet the Egyptian forward has once again been Liverpool’s talisman, playing a pivotal role in their title-winning campaign.
Salah has broken the Premier League record for goal involvements (46 – 28 goals, 18 assists) in a 38-game campaign, and is just one away from equalling the all-time competition record in a season (47) shared by Andrew Cole (1993-94) and Alan Shearer (1994-95).
With 28 goals, he’s scored five more than any other player in 2024-25, although he has admittedly been helped by scoring nine penalties. That haul has seen Salah climb to fifth in the all-time Premier League scoring chart with 185 goals – just two off Cole in fourth (187).
Salah’s 18 assists are six more than any other player in the league and just two short of the all-time season record of 20, shared by Thierry Henry (2002-03) and Kevin De Bruyne (2019-20). He also leads the Premier League this season for open-play chances created (82).
A league-high 13 of his goal involvements have followed a ball carry (four goals, nine assists), showcasing the threat he poses opposition defenders when running with the ball. No player has created more chances following a carry (33) and only four have attempted more shots after one than Salah (33).
Arguably the best statistic to show how phenomenal Salah has been for Liverpool this season is that he’s both scored and assisted a goal in 11 different matches; the previous record was seven (set by five different players), and Salah has obliterated that tally.
Virgil van Dijk
Virgil van Dijk has led Liverpool to their second Premier League title, becoming the first Dutch player to captain a side to an English top-flight league crown. He is also the first non-British player to skipper the Reds to league glory.
Central to his captaincy is leading by example, and yet again Van Dijk has been a tower of strength at the back.
Among the 162 players to contest at least 200 duels in the Premier League this season, only Nikola Milenković (70.2%) and James Tarkowski (68.4%) have a higher success rate than Van Dijk (67.5%). It’s also only those two who rank above him for aerial duel success (100+ aerials) this term, with Van Dijk winning 70.9% in the air.
But he’s also so much more than just being stronger than most other players.
Van Dijk is cool and composed in possession. He’s attempted more passes than any other player in the Premier League this season (2,814), with an accuracy of 91.7%. They’re not all backwards or sideways, either, with the Dutchman attempting a league-high 946 forward passes (79.9% success rate).
Crucially, those passes have often moved Liverpool into dangerous territory, with his 275 successful passes into the attacking third being at least 21 more than any other Premier League player in 2024-25.
Chris Wood
Last weekend saw Chris Wood record his 100th top-flight goal involvement (89 goals, 11 assists), while becoming just the second player to reach 20 goals for Nottingham Forest in a Premier League campaign after Stan Collymore (22 – 1994-95).
The Forest striker has been exceptionally clinical in front of goal this season. Among the 821 players to have attempted 60 or more non-penalty shots in a single Premier League season since 2003-04, none have matched Wood’s conversion rate of 28.3% in 2024-25.
That incredibly high conversion rate has helped Wood outperform his xG total by more than any other player in the Premier League this season, both including all shots (+7.7) and when excluding penalties (+7.1).
The New Zealand international’s goals have helped Forest secure European football for 2025-26, with their tally of 62 points from 36 games already 29 more than they won in 2023-24 – the biggest positive differential of any team in the Premier League this season.
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