
Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah and Manchester City playmaker Kevin De Bruyne were on Friday named among the eight nominees for the Premier League`s Player of the Season award. Salah is the league`s top scorer with 22 goals, while he also has 13 assists. De Bruyne is fourth on the goal-scoring list with 15 and the Belgian international has seven assists.
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Both Salah and De Bruyne have won the award before, in the 2017-18 and 2019-20 seasons respectively.
The other nominees include Liverpool`s Trent Alexander-Arnold, City`s Joao Cancelo, West Ham United`s Jarrod Bowen, Arsenal`s Bukayo Saka, Tottenham Hotspur`s Son Heung-min and Southampton`s James Ward-Prowse. City defender Ruben Dias won the award last season.