Ranking EVERY Premier League Player of the Season From Worst to Best

there have been 30 Seasons since the Premier League broke away from the football league and we are currently in the 31st since that greed inspired power grab which has been an enormous Commercial Success whilst all but destroying any semblance of competition in the Top Flight of English football some truly great players of Grace the revision from Dennis Burr camp and Eric cansonar to Sergio Aguero and Harry Kane none of those four have ever won the Premier League player of the Season award which is not to be confused with the PFA players Player of the Year award and nor of the likes of Steven Gerrard Roy Keane and Ryan Giggs a total of 24 players have won the award since it was introduced in the 1994-95 season four of whom won it twice but none have won it more times than that I thought that it might be fun to have a look at those 24 players some of whom you might not necessarily pick out as being all-time Premier League great but who just so happened to have at least one truly Sensational season an attempt to rank them from worst or best I am not ranking them based solely upon the seasons in which they won the award partly because some of them won it multiple times nor am I ranking them based only on that time playing in their Premier League instead I am going to rank them based upon their ability and the quality and quantity of their performances over the course of their entire careers both in the Premier League and elsewhere I understand that some of you would probably prefer me to use a different criteria but literally whatever method I use when I make one of these videos someone will complain that I should have used a different one it is just one of the Perils of this job but luckily I am incredibly Brave strong and resilient and able to deal with it also please subscribe to this and my backup channel right without further Ado who never played in the Premier League despite going on trial at Manchester United let alone won the Premier League player of the Season award here is how I would rank every Premier League player of the season from Worcester best 24th Reuben Diaz I said I'm ranking these players from worst to best but as with my recent video ranking every Ballon d'Or winner I am really ranking them from least to most brilliant since they all obviously either were or indeed still are fabulous players that is most assured in the case with Reuben Diaz who gets us started having been named as the Premier League player of the season for the 2020-21 campaign that was Diaz's first season playing in the Premier League aged only 23 so the fact that he saw off competition from the likes of Harry Kane Mohamed Salah and Manchester City teammates like Kevin De bruyne to win the divisions player of the Season award was pretty phenomenal Diaz arrived following a season in which Manchester City had scored far more goals than Liverpool yet somehow managed to finish 18 points behind them Vincent companies departure the previous season was evident as such struggled without ever having a settled center-back partnership Diaz immediately came in and changed all of that alongside a resurgent John stones and it's only the fact that he is so much younger than every other Premier League player of the season and has played so many fewer games which ensured that he could only finish 24th I have little doubts that by the time he hangs up his boots he'll be at least a few places higher 23rd Kevin Phillips there will be those who feel as though Reuben Diaz has to rank out of Kevin Phillips even at the age of only 25 but that's probably because those people aren't old enough to remember or don't know enough about that I've seen 99 2000 season which was the season in which Philips won the Premier League player of the Season award in his first season playing Top Flight football having just one promotion from what is now known as the championship with Sunderland Phillips scored 30 goals in 36 League games also becoming the first premier league player to win the European golden shoe and still the only Englishman to have ever won that award a natural dead-ad Marksman who had a sixth sense for snipping out chances and then dispatching them Phillips was a fantastic player but he never had a season quite like that one and the fact that he spends a fair few seasons outside of the Top Flight dictates his position in 23rd up against Elite level competition 22nd Freddie youngbag if it's a man who won the Premier League player of the Season award and modeled Calvin Klein underwear in his prime that you're after and I've no doubt that many of you are then forget about David Beckham old Golden Balls never got his hands on the award Freddy youngbag is the man that you want signed by arson Wenger from Swedish side Homestead for just 3 million pounds in 1998 without the Frenchman ever having seen him in action it was a gamble that very much paid off after struggling initially with the physicality of The League Young bag was magnificent for about six scenes at Arsenal but he was inspired in the 2000 model 2 campaign hitting stunning form in the second half of the Season which inspired the Gunners to a premier league and FA Cup double I haven't really got anything bad to say about youngberg other than that he was pretty much finished at the highest level by 30 and he just Falls victim to the very high level of competition 21st Jamie vardy this season has been a massive come down for Jamie vardy at the age of 36. as you can see in this high quality graphic otherwise known as a screenshot from his Wikipedia page but what he has achieved overall is staggering to go from playing non-league football at the age of 25 and only making your Premier League debut at 27 to outscoring the likes of Didier Drogba and Cristiano Ronaldo in the Premier League is just wildly absurd with 134 goals in total only 13 players have scored more goals in the top lights of English football during the Premier League era and vardy won the player of the Season award in the 2015-16 campaign when his goals inspired Leicester City to the most unlikely of Premier League titles vardy scored 24 League goals that season including 11 in a row to break a premier league ERA record set by Riv van nessaroy and the goals scoring Red Bull Downing former non-league man takes 21st 20th Dwight Yorke I feel as though Dwight Yorke is significantly underrated when it comes to Premier League greats but now I am seemingly part of the problem only putting him in 20th Place the greatest player to hail from the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago York joined Aston Villa as a 17 year old after they told the West Indies and he spent the next 16 years of his life playing in the Top Flight of English football a superb withdrawn forward under the light for any strike partner to play alongside York won the Premier League player of the Season award in the 1998-99 season which was his first at Manchester United in which he scored 29 goals and made 19 assists from 52 appearances in all competitions 19th journalio only the third player to win the Premier League player of the Season award genio Paulista won 49 capsule Brazil during a time in which they could count the likes of Ronaldinho and Kaka among his competitors for a starting birth a member of the Brazil squad that won the 2002 World Cup journino rejoined Middlesbrough for a third time following that success but it wasn't his first season at the Riverside that he was named as the best player in the league that gives genenio the rare and highly unlikely to be replicator distinction of being the only player to win the Premier League player of the Season award and get relegated in the same season which he managed in 1996-97. janino scored 13 Premier League goals and lit up the division That season but it was to no avail in a Boris side that couldn't defend 18th Cristiano Ronaldo nah I'm just kidding 18th Vincent company this is going to make me a little bit unpopular I suspect but there were a few years in which I felt Vincent Kompany was just a tiny bit overrated he was of course an exceptional center-back and I think that he would probably make the third string of an all-time Premier League 11 but I never felt that he was one of the top two or three center-backs in the world at offensive midfielder when Manchester City first signed him what company undoubtedly was though was a born leader with an exceptional football brain and we're seeing that now with a fine job that he is doing at Burnley company won the Premier League Play of the Season award in 2011-12 his first season captaining Manchester City in which he led the club to their first Top Flight league title since the 1960s company went on to spend a decade at the Etsy ad where injuries prevented him from registering Swansea plus League appearances in any of his last four seasons seasons and probably also prevented him from finishing any higher in this list 17th Virgil Van dijk this will also probably make me unpopular though partly because people don't yet realize how good all of the players ahead of them are going to be and I will share with you my justification and then you can decide how much you will hate me in the 2018-19 season which was his best by a mile but for probably three or four seasons Virgil Van dijk is one of the best center backs that we have seen in the Premier League and I would argue that in that season probably the very best blessed with all of the attributes required to make a world-class center-back Van Dyke ended up becoming just that he is only 17th and it is worth reiterating that 17th in a list of this elk is still very high praise indeed predominantly because it wasn't until the age of 26 that he signed for a super club and began competing for the biggest trophies he is still only 31 and I think that he is yet to return so his pre-acl injury bust okay you still hate me but I did my best sixteenth nemanjevich famous for being an absolute Meathead but so much more than that Nemanja virich is one of the all-time great Premier League Bargains having set Manchester United back just seven million pounds when he arrived in the January 2006 transfer window it is pretty remarkable that Village was not just the first center-back to win the Premier League player of the Season award he is one of only four players to have won it twice putting him in the same company as Thierry Henry Cristiano Ronaldo and Kevin De bruyne a few spoilers there of players still to come a front foot Defender who formed an almost perfect combination alongside Rio Ferdinand virich won the award in 200809 and in 2010-11 and it is a shame but not a great surprise given the way in which he played the game their injuries blighted its final years at Old Trafford three of the four center-backs to have won the Premier League player of the Season award features side by side from 18 to 15 to in this list with the other one having finished last exposing my latent bias against offenders I jest but I do genuinely think that it is harder to be a world-class forward than Defender and it is a hill that I'm prepared to die on Pele was better than Bobby Moore Maradona was better than Franco barazi and Messi was better than well I don't know Nemanja Village 15th Michael Owen another Hill that I'm willing to die on is that Michael Owen is a profoundly underrated footballer because he is a deeply strange character most likely a narcissist and a terrible pundit to a lot of people remember more for his late years than his early ones none of that should blind us to the fact that when he broke through as a 17 year old Owen was unlike any other player on the planet terrifyingly quick Uber confidence and capable of creating and scoring goals with contra Mattis Owen said that he didn't think anyone was better than him at 18 and he wasn't too far wrong so when the Premier League golden boots twice before turning 20 is well just absurd and would warrants at least a 200 million pound valuation in today's market he won the Premier League player of the Season award in 1997-98 also aged 18 and if it wasn't for occurring muscle injuries as I have often said on this channel I think that he would have become England's greatest player of all time and he would have made the top three of this list 14. ungolo kante at his very best Angolo kante is one of the most impactful footballers that I've ever seen and by that I mean his presence could decide the outcome of a game more so than almost anyone else's it wasn't just that kante was everywhere all at once and did the running and tackling of two players in Midfield it was the way in which he dispossessed opponents his understanding of his own limitations and is greatly underrated ability to move the ball at speed vital to Leicester City's title win Chelsea's title win France's World Cup win and then Chelsea's Champions League win if it wasn't for the slow start to his career and premature decline having suffered a lot with injuries over the last couple of Seasons he would go down as an all-time great ultimately on what I've actually got to go on which is his actual career he takes 14. 13th rude van nessleroy an absolute natural when I was younger I used to think that rude from Nestle Roy was just a poacher and at times he was but the reality is that he could really play he was just hyper efficient and totally focused on scoring goals the end result was that he scored an awful lot of them in Five Seasons at Manchester United Van nessleroy scored 150 goals in 219 games the 2000 and 203 season was his most prolific in which he scored 25 goals in the Premier League and 44 in all competitions so it's little wonder that that was the season in which he won the Premier League player of the Season award the Nestle Roy scored prolifically for PSV before that and for Real Madrid subsequently and as the sixth High scorer in the history of the Champions League I think that he's good value for a spot in 13th swell Eden Hazard on pure footballing ability I don't think anyone in this list had more of it than Eden Hazard in fact arguably only Messi and Neymar have been more naturally gifted among his peers and it's a reflection I think as Hazard previously admitted himself that he was never committed enough to step up and reach another level to maybe win a Ballon d'Or that he only features in 12th nonetheless I do think Hazard is a premier league great and if you take the decade as a whole from 2010 to 2020 I don't think any player in English football was more impressive than the Belgian overall magnificence at Chelsea has are deservedly won the 2014-15 Premier League player of the Season award and if he hadn't been so injury prone and indeed so unimpressive even when Fitz and signing for Real Madrid he probably would have cracked my top 10. 11th Muhammad Salah there's no doubt in my mind that Eden Hazard is or at least was a more talented footballer than Muhammad Salah but there's also no doubt in my mind that Salah has been the more consistent performer and has eclipsed hazard's achievements within the game a free concerns of his goal scoring Hazard has scored 173 goals in 285 games for Liverpool and it's a mark of the standards that he has set that 17 goals in 31 games so far this season is considered to be borderline disastrous age 30 Salah won the award in his dazzling debut campaign at anfield in 2017-18 and he could probably climb another few places higher in these rankings if he gets back to anything like his best before hanging up his boots 10th Peter schmeichel it's always difficult to compare goalkeepers to Outfield players in fact it is near enough impossible I might suggest but it has to be done and I think that the fairest ranking for Peter schmeichel is probably 10th the only goalkeeper to win the Premier League player of the Season award schmeichel did so in the 1995-96 season in which Manchester United undoubtedly wouldn't have won the Premier League title without him a huge presence schmeichel inspired confidence in his own Defenders and struck fear into opposing forwards and along with Neville's Southall and patachek he is comfortable among the three finest Keepers that English footballers witnessed over the past three or four decades ninth Frank Lampard at number nine is amid Felder who had a goal scoring record like a number nine and a very good one at that the sixth highest goal scorer of the Premier League era and Chelsea's High scorer of all time it would be a mistake to think the Lampard solely offered goals not the most naturally gifted Lampard was never going to be someone who beat players and went on Maisie runs what he had was an incredible Devotion to the game though Supreme intelligence and a real accuracy both went striking on goal and in the past he won the Premier League player of the Season award in the 200405 season but he can't have been too far off winning it in about three separate campaigns over the space of a decade which is a mark of his consistency and Longevity eighth Patrick the era I ranked Patrick Vieira one place ahead of Frank Lampard in my recent video ranking every current Premier League manager based upon their playing abilities and though Frank Lampard is no longer a premier league manager I'm not about to take pity on him and switch the two of them around after all Lampard endorsed David Cameron and George Osborne who proceeded to unleash brutal austerity on the UK population and brought the country to its knees and as far as I'm aware is yet to express any regret over that back on topic Patrick Vieira is the greatest box to box midfielder that I think the premier league has seen athletic intelligence and a fantastic Captain the era really had it all and even after his nine years at Arsenal the World Cup and Euros winner had five fabulous and immensely successful Seasons starring in Syria Sabbath Alan sharer the highest scorer of the Premier League era and the fifth highest scorer in the entire history of the top flights of English football because football didn't start in 1992 despite me making a video which fits rather neatly within that narrative Alan Shearer was often described as being an old school number nine all that meant was that he was physical could run him behind or play with his back to goal and he scored lots of goals which are all pretty useful traits for a center forward at his best I would suggest in his last three seasons at Blackburn Rovers it was in the 1994-95 season when Shira won his only premier league title with Blackburn and scored 34 Premier League goals that he deserve only won the Premier League player of the Season award that made Shira the first recipients of the award which was only introduced in 1994 and those seventh will seem low to some this is my list so it's literally just based on my opinion and it's cool if you totally disagree with it and there is really no need to wish ill health on any of my family members in the comments yes ask buster47 I am looking at you sixth Kevin De bruyne already I think the most talented midfielder to have graced the Premier League if not the greatest outright if Kevin De bruyne sticks around for another two or three years and Manchester City don't get relegated I think that he'll put that debate about formerly of Chelsea de bruyne's former gank convinced the blues to sign him and it was his performances at Wolfsburg that made them realize they'd made a huge mistake after winning the Bundesliga player of the Season award de bruyne joined Manchester City where he has been named as the division's best player twice in both the 2019-20 and 2021-22 campaigns it makes de bruyne one of only four two-time winners of the award and the only player to have won those equivalence Awards in both the Premier League and in the Bundesliga and six fills just about right to me for now now at least I would say that his ceiling in this list is probably fourth if he were to play brilliantly for another few seasons into his mid-30s fifth Gareth Bale I'm not sure there has ever been a more unplayable one-man team than Gareth Bale at Spurs in the 2012-13 Premier League season a terrifying combination of speed strength and dead product no one could live within that season and rarely if ever has someone deserved to win the Premier League player of the Season award more of course after that Bale joined Real Madrid for a world record fee and it is in large part his performances and accomplishments over particularly the next six seasons there that earn him a spot all the way up in fifth place at his best you'd probably put him above the man up next but when you combine Talent with his career as a whole given that his final years were blighted by injuries I think fifth is just about right fourth Wayne Rooney a ferocious Talent with an equally ferocious temper in his teens and early twenties Wayne Rooney was absolute Dynamite a horrible nasty player to play against who was willing to do all of the pressing and Donkey work in the world while still being incredibly gifted on the ball in the past and in the shot Rooney played football on the edge unfortunate only to win the Premier League player of the Season award once that recognition came in 2009-10 following Cristiano Ronaldo's departure in which Rooney backed 26 goals in the league and 34 in all competitions Rooney himself stated that he preferred to play a little bit deeper even if it meant scoring fewer goals since he always wanted to be involved in the game though his decline came earlier than some others he broke through so young and was so good so early on that he had comparable longevity to a lot of other greats fourth it is and I'm pretty happy with third Luis Suarez has there ever been a better individual Premier League campaign than Luis Suarez in the 2013-14 season in 33 games Suarez scored 31 goals without taking a single penalty All Season had he have been on penalties he would have set a goal scoring record for the division that even earling Harlem would have struggled to break assuming that he was better at taking them than Alexander mitrovic though Suarez was phenomenal for three and a half Seasons at unfeld it's what he did outside of the Premier League the cements his spot in my top three and somehow the 2013-14 campaign wasn't even his best season that would have to be the 2015-16 season in which Suarez scored 59 goals in 53 games of Barcelona ending Messi and Ronaldo's duopoly over the division's Golden Boot still going strong with gramio at the age of 36 where he has so far scored seven goals in six games games Suarez has bagged 467 goals in 752 games over his career as a whole the greatest Premier League player of all time when it comes to biting a chunk out of people's arms and the third greatest Premier League player of the Season overall in my eyes at least second Thierry Henry the greatest Premier League player of all time in terms of the quality and quantity of his performances in the division if that is what I was basing these rankings on Thierry on reward take top spot uncomfortably so given that the second greatest Premier League player in my view never won the player of the Season award reunited with arson Vanguard Arsenal having been horribly misused as a wing back at Juventus Henry's stunning debut campaign set the tone for what was to come lightning quick endlessly inventive and a majestic Creator and score of goals no player has given more Premier League players sleepless nights or made them soil their undergarments so thoroughly when running towards them Henry won the Premier League player of the Season award in the 200304 and then the 200506 seasons and he would have been a perfectly legitimate winner in all but the last of his eight seasons in North London throw in his three seasons in a generational Barcelona team and I don't think that Henry could rank anywhere other than second first Cristiano Ronaldo Thierry Henry has a greater Legacy than Cristiano Ronaldo in the Premier League but based upon their entire careers there can be no debate Cristiano Ronaldo is the greatest player to have played in the Premier League and you could probably make an extremely compelling case that he is the greatest player ever to have graced the English game transformed at Manchester United from a skillful but skinny wide player somewhat lacking in end products into one of the most remarkable athletes and lethal goal scorers that the game had ever seen Ronaldo is the only player so I've won back-to-back Premier League player of the season awards doing so in the 200607 and 2007 08 campaigns as good as he was in his last three seasons at Old Trafford and in truth his final season was much better than his 200607 season it is the level that Ronaldo reached and everything that he achieved at Real Madrid that made his position in first quite so straightforward in and 438 games at the Santiago bernabeo Ronaldo scored 450 goals so yeah pretty straightforward that is it for today's video but thank you all very much as ever for watching hit the like button if you enjoyed today's video let me know your thoughts Down Below in the comments and please subscribe to both channels on your screen now and turn on notifications so that you never miss a video you can also find me on Twitter and on Instagram just via the username at hrcc Sims on both should you wish to do so

Channel: HITC Sevens

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Keywords: HITC Sevens, Football, Soccer, Premier League, Ranking, Player of the Season, Award, Manchester United, Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo, Jamie Vardy, Leicester City, Arsenal, Manchester City, Man Utd, Best, Worst, Players, Footballers, Ranked, Liverpool, Chelsea

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Length: 27min 40sec (1660 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 13 2023