Bruno Fernandes, Nico O'Reilly Earn End Of Season Player Honors

Manchester United skipper Bruno Fernandes has been named the Premier League Player of the Season pursuing a historical idiosyncratic campaign. The seasoned midfielder claimed the prestigious grant up of respective title-winning Arsenal stars, portion Manchester City's versatile academy postgraduate Nico O'Reilly secured the Young Player of the Season award.

Red Devils Skipper Creates History

Fernandes has secured his archetypal vocation Premier League Player of the Season accolade aft guiding United backmost into the Champions League. The 31-year-old playmaker enjoyed a stunning originative campaign, scoring 8 top-flight goals and matching the humanities single-season grounds of 20 assists. By conquering a star-studded shortlist, the Portuguese planetary became the seventh antithetic Old Trafford typical to assertion the award, and the archetypal since Nemanja Vidic successful 2011.

Historic Assist Record Matched

The seasoned talisman's exceptional statistical output saw him emulate legendary top-flight creators Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne by reaching the 20-assist milestone. This latest administrative triumph follows his caller FWA Footballer of the Year coronation. Fernandes captured the idiosyncratic prize implicit formidable title-winning Arsenal trio David Raya, Gabriel Magalhaes, and Declan Rice, alongside Manchester City striker Erling Haaland, Antoine Semenyo, Morgan Gibbs-White, and Brentford's Igor Thiago.

City Prodigy Lands Youth Prize

Meanwhile, City starlet O'Reilly capped disconnected a sensational breakthrough twelvemonth nether Pep Guardiola by winning the Young Player of the Season award. The 21-year-old academy postgraduate established himself arsenic an indispensable tactical asset, registering 34 elder appearances crossed aggregate positions, including left-back and cardinal midfield. O'Reilly edged retired modern nominees, including Rayan Cherki, Eli Junior Kroupi, Mateus Fernandes, Lewis Hall, Michael Kayode, Kobbie Mainoo, and Alex Scott.

World Cup Test Looms

O'Reilly indispensable present rapidly modulation from section home occurrence to the highest tier of planetary shot aft earning a spot successful Thomas Tuchel's England World Cup squad. The versatile youngster enters the tourney successful pristine signifier pursuing match-winning Wembley displays successful some the Carabao Cup and FA Cup finals.

Conversely, Fernandes shifts his absorption towards the World Cup and his starring relation with Portugal, portion Michael Carrick and Manchester United look to instrumentality attraction of concern successful the transportation window.

2026 FIFA World Cup: How To Watch

The 2026 FIFA World Cup volition tally from June 11–July 19, 2026. Spread crossed 3 countries, the tourney volition culminate with the last connected July 19 astatine New York New Jersey Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. All 104 tourney matches volition aerial unrecorded crossed FOX (70) and FS1 (34) with each lucifer streaming unrecorded and on-demand wrong some the FOX One and the FOX Sports app. A grounds 40 matches, much than one-third of the tournament, volition aerial successful premier clip crossed FOX (21) and FS1 (19).

The opening lucifer connected June 11 betwixt Mexico and South Africa (3 p.m. ET) volition watercourse for escaped connected Tubi, arsenic good arsenic the USA's opening lucifer against Paraguay connected June 12 (9 p.m. ET).

Reporting by GOAL.