Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah has been voted the 2022 PFA Players’ Player of the Year.

Edging out title rival Kevin De Bruyne to the trophy, Salah also saw off Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane and teammates Virgil van Dijk and Sadio Mané to take home the honour. His first PFA Player of the Year win since 2018, Salah’s impressive season also sees him featured in the 2022 PFA Premier League Team of the Year.

Winning the award for the second time, Salah said: “It’s a great honour to win a trophy, individual or collective and this one is big so, very happy and very proud of that. This one is a really good one to win, especially because it’s voted by players. It shows you that you’ve worked really hard and you get what you worked for. I have my room with trophies in a cabinet and I made sure that I had another space for one more. I always keep space and just try to imagine that the trophies are going to come.”

Salah added, “When you get older, you feel like you’re more stable and you know exactly what you want from football so I’m just trying to really chill and help the team. That’s why I think I also won the playmaker because it’s like you’re more aware of the game, so you just try to make the people next to you better and try to make yourself better as well.”