Mo Salah named PFA Player of the Year 2018- Sane wins Young POTY 2017-18

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been officially named the PFA Player of the Year for the 2017/18 season. The Egyptian forward, who has scored 31 times in 33 league games for the Reds this season, beat Kevin de Bruyne, Harry Kane, Leroy Sane, David Silva and David de Gea to be named POTY.

Salah is the seventh Liverpool player to be named PFA Player of the Year, following in the footsteps of Terry McDermott, Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush, John Barnes, Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez.

Man City’s Leroy Sane was named Young Player of the Year 2018, pipping Harry Kane, Ederson, Raheem Sterling, Ryan Sessegnon and Marcus Rashford to the award.

Salah was named in the PFA Team of the Year, but Sane narrowly missed out on featuring the XI that was announced a few days ago.

Chelsea’s Fran Kirby won the Womens’ Player of the Year award with Bristol City’s Lauren Hemp winning the Women’s Young Player of the Year

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List of Players who have joined Common Goal- Footballers pledging 1% income to charity

Edit- list updated on October 28, 2017 with newer additions.

Former Arsenal winger Serge Gnabry has today (5 October, 2017) become the latest footballer to join the Common Goal initiative. Gnabry, currently on loan at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim from Bayern Munich has therefore pledged to donate 1% of his earnings to charity. Common Goal is the brainchild of Manchester United and Spain star Juan Mata.

At the time of writing this article, six footballers have publicly joined Common Goal. We will definitely see more names being revealed in the near future, and this list will be updated from time to time.

Juan Mata (Manchester United/Spain)
Mats Hummels (Bayern Munich/Germany)
Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus/Italy)
Serge Gnabry (Hoffenheim/Germany)
Alex Morgan (Orlando Pride/USWNT)
Megan Rapinoe (Seattle Reign/USWNT)
Julian Nagelsmann (Manager Hoffenheim/Germany)
Dennis Aogo (Stuttgart/Germany)
Alex Brosque (Sydney FC/Australia)
Hasan Ali Kaldirim (Fenerbahce/Turkey)
Heather O’Reilly (Arsenal/USWNT)
Charlie Daniels (Bournemouth/England)
Alfie Mawson (Swansea/England)
Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund/Japan)

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