😂😂😂

I'm partial to a cowgirl myself.

Every team deserves A doggie

My comment got removed. Lame.

@@Pebble_Collectorwhat was it

Also he's not the penalty taker so his goal numbers are even more impressive

Never seen him make a goal like great strikers, I prefer Isak this season and Toney looked better in the same England team.

I think isaak is probably a better footballer but Watkins assists and the fact all his goals have been open play is insane

​@@James-vv7vh It's crazy that they never mention that. A goal from a penalty is incomparable to a goal from open play. They are far more impressive.

he his the best striker in the league this season for me not halland who go missing in big games

🤣🤣🤣

Van Dijk has been better than Gabriel and Saliba this season

@@eddiemcconnell7785Stop.

@@eddiemcconnell7785are you okay?

He is not okay ​@@tomjones7184

Nice joke he has been awful, hardly put clean sheets, gabriel saliba miles ahead of him, even Van der ven and Braithwaite are better, behave 😅

Øde clear

Why can’t he be?? Been the best player on the best team in the league since returning. Daft logic

@@vidu635 not been the best player and missing a lot of football means his impact across the season has been trumped by other players, i.e. Rodri, Foden Bernardo

@@vidu635 Key phrase “since returning” which I agree with and gave him credit for, but that doesn’t mean he is in the team for the WHOLE season when he’s played 1/3 of the matches

@@raidenafc6576 Incredible this szn

He had a stinker with the blonde hair but quickly got rid of it

Doesn't wanna play for England though. Lame.

Love him to bits but he does struggle with 1v1 defending. Elite decision maker though, knows when to overlap, when to clip a ball over the top and even had a spell in the Champions League where his average position was higher than our strikers.

​@landondonovanify I can guarantee you he would play for England, clearly there's a breakdown in relationship between Southgate or one of the coaches.

Never had a bad game in a arsenal shirt? That is just a shameless lie

And he still has less goals. Smh

13 assists as well, most assists in the league by 3

Isak > both mate.

Watkins wouldn’t score as many goals if almost every week he had to play a deep defensive line. He would have hardly any room to pass the ball for those assists, he would have multiple shots blocked or saved, and he would have less counter attacking chances with the opposition defense sitting so deep. You saw how even Arsenal had to play a deep defensive line to stop Manchester City from creating chances and winning. Haaland has 19 non penalty goals which is the same as Watkins so the no penalties argument doesn’t even matter.

​@marvinprudencio7321 Haaland wouldn't score as many goals if City players didn't pass the ball to him😅 he offers you goals but not much else. That's why he looks so Lukaku-ish when City plays teams like Liverpool or Madrid. Everyone else is playing football while he's merely waiting to score. I have no issue with that. That's what he is supposed to do as a forward. I'm not getting the point you're trying to make with Watkins. 'If this or that were the case' doesn't really work in reality. If prime Barcelona wasn't set up the way it was, perhaps Messi would not have scored so many goals. You could argue but then again, conjectures have infinite possibilities. Watkins has lots of assists. It's not just goals. And the fact that he has a lot of goal contributions in a Villa team... irrespective of their structure... is worthy of praise. Do you really think coaches would purposely set up their teams for failure? Or set up their teams in a manner that would not be beneficial to their forwards? Haaland is the more clinical striker but Watkins, overall, is better. Stats aside, the eye test shows me that Ollie is the more dynamic player. I don't like how people try to minimise what players like Watkins, Isak and/or Solanke have accomplished this season. If they played for City or Liverpool or even Chelsea (like Cole Palmer), people would be waxing poetic about them. Meanwhile, players like Eze or Olise who've been out of the Palace team for large chunks of the season have good performances and scored quality goals but they won't be hyped like Palmer.

have to agree tbf. Haaland's been over-criticised tho imo for a poorish season for his standards

Nope people are forgetting Haaland only played 29 games thus season and only started 27 due to injuries while Watkins has started every single game and Haaland only has 2 less Goal contributions so Haaland has had the better season and he's gonna win golden boot as well

@@delhen21 I think people are forgetting that Watkins doesn't take Villa's penalties, which makes his numbers even more impressive

@@James-vv7vh Fair but if you take away all of Haaland pen goals he would still have the same number of goals as Watkins while playing 7 games less than him this season.

@@sfb4144yeah his expectations are too high cause of his first season

Watkins has goals and assists mate, that’s what he means.

@@Nhleko9303 Bruno Fernandez has (more) goals and assists mate, why is de bruyne in over him?

In fairness to him, the whole "team of the season" format is a bit of a joke, if you want to actually put together a functional team you have to ignore a lot of the best players in the league to have a sane formation, would be better if instead of a best 11 it was a full matchday squad so you could fit notable mentions onto the subs bench

No way palmer is 10 times better this season in an amateur team like chelsea and i know the penalties.

Always in a 2. It's like when everyone thought Kante should play CDM in a three man midfield, it took away the best feature of his game. Playing Rice as a CDM in a three man midfield does the same.

I think Gary is referring to the single pivot.

@@josephcole8046 Agreed, but gotta say you lose a lot of creativity on that side by using rice as a more attacking CM with Odegaard and Saka on the right

@@sfb4144 Completely agree, I don't think he has a natural position in a midfield 3. He limits the on-the-ball potential of the side. But, with the way they defend in their 4-4-2 shape, he works really well defensively, which, for all their goals this season, is the reason they're in the title race.

Double pivot it different from a single dm,

Forgotten because they missed out on the title.

Although they did win the title the year before and three of that back four won titles in 1989 and 1991. It's also insane that that back four had two centre backs at 32 years old and the LB and RB were both 35 years old.

Saka hasn't been it this season imo, and that team is based on the formation. White over saka with a back 4 or Bernardo silva over saka with palmer RW are better TOTS bias aside

van dijk haha

@@rianshah9377 where’s your defence? 👀

No fullbacks is a cop out seeing as most teams play fullbacks. White at RB, Udogie/Robinson/Gvardiol at LB, Van Dijk out the back 3, Palmer RW, Saka out. Harsh on Van Dijk and Saka but in a TOTS there's gonna be tough choices. You can't just shoehorn extra players in from different positions imo. But yes if you wanted to exclude fullbacks for some weird reason, I'd agree with your team.

Pickford is not the best GK in the league

Media always sleeping on toon players

Let them sleep 🔥

Gordon and Bruno have carried the injury ridden toon to potentially 6th, Bruno has almost as many goals and assists as rice but has sacrificed more for Newcastle... Plus both players haven't missed a single minute of football

Gordon has and they played 2 AMs out wide because they needed them in the team.. but he's been the best LW in the league this season

I think Isak was better than Gordon

Not all of city’s players have been out of this world this season Foden and Rodri have been class all season the other have been in ans out

It happens every year😂 first it was Liverpool and now Arsenal. But it doesn’t matter at the end of the day

coz we're a strong team, not made of individuals... I get your point though.

Then why does City struggle mainly without Rodri (or debruyne) than, I get your point but all teams are strong together, but there is always that 1 individual key player who has a greater impact on the team.

@@Jere-Von_trotz it’s more about other teams players get a BIT overhyped just because they are competing for the league.

What kind of rice? Basmati or Jalof?

Facts

No Odegaard get him out. Soft lad that goes missing any important game I’ll slap him about he’ll do nothing

Nowhere near a relegation side this year👍

10/11th in points won this season.

Dyche ball

15?? I thought he had 12. Raya is leading with 16 cleansheets

​@@michaelkeane611urm have you been watching them until about 4 weeks ago 😂

Rightly so. Imagine playing ⅓ of the season and still being the best creator. Absurd player.

Debruyne being overrated again

Doesn't matter, only done it for a third of the season​@@QuentinMajor

​@@Woze899KDB overrated? You need your head checked

@@zachdalton9361 That just makes it more impressive, and further justifies his inclusion.

I’m an Arsenal fan he’s been terrible this year his fake stats have saved him

They mentioned him right at the end, he's in their stats-based team of the season

Nah

He can't. There's a reason Partey or Jorginho play alongside him most of the time.

@@QuentinMajor He can. The reason for Partey and Jorginho to play the anchor is to allow Arteta to further exploit Rice's talent.

@@zoeykeller9083 Yeah - his talent going forward, not as a holding midfielder.

@@QuentinMajorRice was a holding midfielder for most of the first half of the season and he consistently put in very good performances where he was usually a contender for man of the match.

@@QuentinMajor That reason is because the other 8 options aren't good enough (or not given a chance)

He's always been propa good for Everton. Always good for England aswell. Some people who ask for like rasdale and pope in goal for England, but there's no shock pickford always starts because he's really good for them

Was unbelievable against Chelsea and Palmer

Wheres your reply gone

No he hasn't 😂 Alison is a level above Pickford

@@peterf08 Pickford has been better than Allison this season. Allison is a better keeper nobody is disputing that but in terms of performance and consistency Pickford has been better

People just forgetting that VVD has been world class

@@alexboden6571 liverpool just shipped another 3 goals that evening... and could have conceded another 4 if not for bad finishing... but ok.

@@EAGuyver if you can't see that VVD is world class then god help you.

@@ruaridhcameron3863it’s not about ‘seeing’ Liverpool cannot keep a clean sheet to save their lives and Van Dijk is a big reason for that. Outside of the PL, he was woeful v Atalanta and was at fault for the Rashford goal in FA cup defeat

He also won his club a trophy with a goal in the League Cup final 🤫

Have you even watched Martinez this season. I doubt it

Agreed on KDB tbf. Bernardo should be in there imo. Is McGinn or Douglas Luis a crazy shout? Hell, I wanna give props to Barkley and Wharton hahaha. But yeah, KDB coz of injuries, but for the same reason I'd skip Udogie too.

@@sfb4144oh come on. Bernardo is great but TOTS?? I rather have kdb over Bernardo even with less games

@@sfb4144when they were saying no LB has been good this season I just was like Dinge

De Bruyne has been MILES clear of Odegaard and not even played half the games he has! 😂

I'd probably go Vicario over Martinez but fair team 👍

@@Aron.kvicario started really well but he’s been mad inconsistent in 2024 (tbf spurs backline hasn’t been great in that span). Actually think Pickford is the right choice

Good side no changers

No utd finished 3rd

Great point. I'm glad Gary called him out on the clumsy hypocrisy

Saka no watkin yes

Saka is arguable though. Both Palmer and Salah have been better.

Even as an arsenal fan, saka no watkins yes. Saka has been below his standard this season. We need to buy competition for him this summer

​@@Overhemd...and still somehow he's put in better numbers this season when he's having a bad season than last season

I'm an arsenal fan too and Saka has been disappointing. Have to give it to Saliba, Rice, Odegaard tho

That is slightly wrong

Swap saka for bailey and I might agree 😂

Clean sheets is not based on one player

@paddykiernan5503 that's the point, if saliba and gabs in toty, raya shud be in. Diff from last year where Rambo is in goal.. concede too many soft goals

Why the golden glove? ​@@paddykiernan5503

No chance lol he's got clean sheets because of he's defense not one game has he saved arsenal with outstanding saves

Fewer

hes been absolute average this season

​@@electrucutionhis best season in terms of goals and assists yeah def bang average... Without his contribution we would be lucky to get champs league.

@@Flamezie avg player. most overrated of all time. bigger diver than penaldo

How is it official?

​@@electrucutionwhat have you achieved in life?

Palmers had a miles better that's why he's not mentioned 😂

Palmer and foden are better even rice ben white odegard are better in his team

Even if there was a second XI Saka couldn't make it in.

He's only started 13 games this season. He's great but come on now. Not enough games played.

@@silverheart7964 Nah he literally has 17 assists, 6 goals in 23 games. The guy is a creative machine and easily top 3 prem midfielders oat, I think it's obviously deserved....

@@theinstrumental8090 this Premier league TOTS. 16 games, 13 starts, 4 goals and 9 assists. He is nowhere near it because of injurys.

@@theinstrumental8090 KDB is easily top 1 Prem midfielders of all time, no one is even close to the discussion with KDB.

Trent?? loool behave

Only because De Bruyne was injured for so long, game by game performance De Bruyne is miles better

@@williamhobbs4202 He isn’t Miles better. KDB is on the decline, Ø is on the up. And Ødegaard’s dribbling and technical ability in tight spaces is in a different league to KDB’s it’s far far superior. Passing is probably about the same, KDB has a slight edge on shooting. That’s it.

De Bruyne has better goals, assists, BCC, xA, and key passes per game stats despite playing 16 games to Ødegaard's 34. More assists and BCC, in absolute numbers, too 😭

@@QuentinMajorstats are like bikini’s. Watch Arsenal games. Odegaard trumps KDB

​@@QuentinMajorabsolutley no arguing with that. Debryne clear.

No your wrong Martinez in goal

Vicario should either be starting or on the bench.

First year in a while I wouldn’t pick Alisson

Alisson has missed the crunch games of the title run-in.

@@hellohi1445 Vicario is so bad at controlling his area and in the air

This is the correct team

@@Brandywine92just Martinez instead or Pickford

Great team, I had Robinson over gvardiol personally but no complaints

Foden's already won it.

​@@QuentinMajorOh really?

Mug

Maybe that's why Jamie picked Pickford instead so.

Every keeper's been a traffic cone at some point. It's a difficult position. Pickford held 4 to Palmer in one game. Martinez's PSxG stats are the best in the league, which is like the best unbiased measure we have of a keeper's shotstopping performance. He's also got decent stats for coming for crosses, actions outside the box etc which are the best of his career so far. Villa also 4th with a defence that's had a fair few injuries. You can absolutely make a case for him. Like they said, it's between him and Pickford this season.

Pickford has EASILY been the best keeper in the league. He's made the most saves. Without him Everton would've went down.

VVD has been the lone warrior at the back

What are you waffling about? Pickford's been exceptional the last three seasons and has the second most clean sheets in the league with 117 saves, 72 more than David Raya. Just admit you're a casual who doesn't watch Everton.

​@@robcoward632613 CS in a struggling side and Raya only got the golden gloves due to VAR taking Solanke's goal off him for nought

​@@somdutta7322by his standards he has been at his best, but more argument for Virgil than Udogie 😂

That logic make no sens

Never going to happen because of Everton's league position

115 doesn't play on the pitch bindipper. You blamed fergy time and Howard Webb during Utd's reign, try bring facts rather than conspiracies..lol

"Am I wong?", Idk mate, it's too early to say really, but you're 100% assuming things and making hypothetical judgements so you could be proven right to an extent, but I don't respect your arguments at all lol. Also, ffp charges span till 2018, and were minor charges since 2017, so 2021/22 season definitely is suspicion free, and 18/19 less arguably so.

​@@DavidRegaL-lw5xz it's a well known fact by everyone except United fans that Fergie had the refs in his pocket, still doesn't change anything he's still goated for what he did in Scotland but his time in England is a bit tainted imho

Literally how man city line up in possession

tell that to pep

That's the formation pep uses

Recency bias

Lol memory of a goldfish

@@zachdalton9361recencybias. He’s not even been in the league a full season. Stop being a sheep and chatting crap that means nothing.

Pretty anonymous in a quality (albeit illegally assembled) City team

@@Efcdan1878 pack it in Dan

only started playing well in the second half of the season

Only played well last 8 games

​@@mclovinyousaucinUdogie hasn't played well since the first ten games, and Neville still picks him, lol

​@@vulcan7877No, he hasn't.

using your thinking, someone will say Cucurela deserves a slot there too. Both of them showed up too late in the season to be included in team of the year

What’s wrong?

They've had one good season, the other combos mentioned did it for years and winning every trophy while they're at it. Different levels

Try to listen properly before typing... he said if they continue on this trajectory for another 3+ years

​@@Yamamashouse247 please listen

@@loom6643 they still won’t be close to those other partnerships haha