Van Dijk could be injured all season and Danny Murphy would put him in his side

Murphy personifies the bbc. 60% of his team is English or Liverpool. No shame on this guy!

People quickly forget Haaland missed 7 Premier League matches this season through injury and has missed two months worth of matches this season. His 38 goals and 6 assists in 43 matches is still seriously impressive. The knock against Haaland this season is his conversion rate has decreased and his big chances missed increased. Realistically, Watkins outperformed his expectations while Haaland underperformed his. Which just goes to show how off the charts Haaland really is. Another tidbit that most people look past is that Haaland’s loss of form not only coincided with him coming back from being out injured for two months but he also lost a family member at right around the same time he returned to City in early February. Pep mentioned that Haaland was struggling with the loss behind the scenes and people forget he’s still only 23. So dealing with loss at that age can still be very raw. Just a little more perspective because people very often forget players are human too off the pitch.

Watkins - 19 goals (0 penalties), 13 assists, 32 total goal contributions. Haaland - 27 goals (7 penalties), 5 assists, 32 total goal contributions. Watkins 1 less non-penalty goal, 8 more assists and has led Villa to champions league football. Anyone who is outraged at the consideration of Watkins over Haaland is a complete braindead clown.

If Harry Kane had 27 league goals nobody would say Watkins over him

Its the sarcasm in the studio for me😂

Gabriel >> VVD this season

The shade on gabriel at cb for arsenal is insane. Hes been insane.

Simon hates Villa because our owners are showing him what a good owner looks like.

Simon's right about VVD.

Watkins isn’t even a bad take. Only 1 behind in non-penalty goals and the assit leader in the league

Watkins over Haaland😂Oh Danny boy what a load of rubbish

Watkins has been quality this season. 19 goals without penalties and a ton of assists.

Simon is never happy when people don't agree with him ! 😁

Murphy definitely provides cracked Fire Sticks to all his mates for a little supplemental income.

Liverpool fan here. Think Watkins is a fair pick. VVD should not be in it. Has been extremely inconsistent.

3:52 Jim’s every day sarcasm 😂

Watkins has been amazing but Haaland having an “off season” with 27 goals is crazy 😂 - Victim of his own success.

Like the "football person" sly dig Jim got in there😂😂😂😂 mr souness watching?

If we're talking about performances rather than the number of goals they've scored, then Watkins has clearly had a better season! How many times this season have you said at the end of a City game "Haaland played really well today!"?

Watkins also has 32 goal involvements this season, which is currently the highest in the premier league.

Is anyone on talk sport ever actually happy

Simon never ceases to amaze me! Always wanting to look smarter than others. I thought Mauricio was clear and actually answered the questions pretty well tbh

Saliba and Gabriel have been the 2 best CBs by far

It's funny how Simon says that pochettino did not make any sense but then when it was his turn to speak on the subject he didn't say anything that made any sense himself. If I understood correctly, Pochettino basically said that this season was not up to Chelsea's historic standards as a club, but considering all the circumstances, the season was a success. I don't know what was so hard to understand about that to say that nothing he said made sense.

Watkins has been incredible tbf

People just expect it from Haaland which doesn’t mean he hasn’t been better

Simon is always a complete tart 2mins in and he’s already pissing me off

There is an argument to be made for any of Haaland, Isak or Watkins and even as a Newcastle fan I can't really argue too much with anyone who picks Watkins. Seems like Simon just decided to have an argument for the sake of it.

VVD scored in the cup final and all of a sudden he was considered the best CB oat crazy what a goal can do

Aston Villa are top of the top 4 league having beaten Arsenal twice, City once, point against Liverpool… 10 points… 💜💙🦁

Simon doesn't get logic. If someone does a better job with worse tools, they're better. Watkins has had a better season that Haaland.

Agree with Danny, l dont believe Poch had a say on all the players that came in last summer

Konsa deserves a mention

Rice and Rodri 😂😂 stop grouping them together Rodri is clear

Madness, how is Watkins in over Haaland. 😳

Ahahahahaha come.on danny you absolute weapon 😂

Ollie Watkins has scored 27 goals this season in all competitions and 13 assists. That's 40 goal involvements and he doesn't take penalties, he also doesn't get the amount of service that Erling Haaland receives. Haaland's an exceptional striker but i think Watkins has had a better season than Haaland 🦁

I normally don’t agree with Simon but I have to agree Haaland has to be in over Watkins.

How convenient that Danny Murphy and Jamie Carragher have Van Dijk and nobody else puts him near 😂

Virgil is questionable 🤔

A PL team of the season without KDB and Haaland? That's Ludacris!!

Only 2 city players?

People seem to miss that VVD has played the majority of the season with out Trent, Robertson, Matip and Allison.

Quality team he’s selected! Regarding Watkins/Haaland it’s conjecture. Murphy explained his reasons and they’re understandable, whether you agree or not. Simon needs to relax

Jordan again showing his lack of football knowledge AND the normal rudeness.

Loving Murphy these days.

Simon is bang on. these players that are brought in at Chelsea, Pochettino has the final say. For Danny to say he doesn't is nonsense. As Simon said they don't just turn up at the training ground without him not knowing.

How can you ignore Raya, Gabriel & Gvardiol in the back 5.....typical Murphy towing the fake news bbc line.

Lol murphy picked only 2 city players i mean come on im a chelsea fan but just 2 city players is ridiculous

I think Simons wrong here, chelsea buy players to suit their model, poch was crying out for experience in his early press conferences and didn’t get anyone of that nature, they may run it by him or get his opinion but I’m not sure he has the final say

How do you not pick kdb over Odegaard. Kdb played half the games and just has 2 less goal contributions

Vvd had poor last month so Gabriel deserved spot. Danny is bang on with Watkins.

11:34 Top Bloke

CB pairing anything other than Saliba and Gabriel is pathetic. The idea VVD has been better than Gabriel is for the birds. How many clean sheets have Liverpool kept this season??

Danny just showing is how clueless he is

😂😂😂Simon mate is the general🙏🏾

Why is odegaard in?

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Liverpool couldn’t keep clean sheets this season so wouldn’t go for VVD. The spurs defence conceded a lot of goals too so wouldn’t go for Udogie

Ollieeeeeee 19/13 G&A, the complete striker

Haaland👑

Many fans are quick to forget there was football before the Premier League and Haaland (great striker that he is) does not even come close to William Ralph (Dixie) Dean with 60 top flight league goals in a Season. Perhaps in a year or two the Premier League will also be given a more exciting title and all present day records will also be quickly forgotten (Just Saying).

Would say Raya, Gabriel for sure...

I think Simon is one of those who thinks automatically that whoever gets the goals should get the plaudits. Golden boot = player of the year Winning goal = man of the match By his definiton Haaland is a better player then KDB because he does what he does (score goals) better then anyone else. He does little to nothing else but he does that one thing really well. Annoying

Every player who has ever led the PL in G/A, won the Golden Boot and won the PL in the same season : Shearer 94/95 (TOTY) Henry 01/02 (TOTY) Henry 03/04 (TOTY) Ronaldo 07/08 (TOTY) Drogba 09/10 (TOTY) Van Persie 12/13 (TOTY) Haaland 22/23 (TOTY) Haaland 23/24 (???)

Isak scores same amount as watkins in half the games 😆 🤣

Anyone who'd have De Bruyne now is insane. His hamstrings are like wet toilet paper. He is done soon.

5 Arsenal players,1 Spurs player , 2 villa players,2 City players and 1 Chelsea player....the fact that arsenal have 50% of the outfield players in the "Team of the Season" ....they must be running away with the prem....

So haaland isn’t in the team cause he’s missed a big chunk of the season but he’s still top goalscorer if anything that’s impressive 😂 everyone else is having their best season and haaland has missed two months and they still can’t outscore him

Van Dijk is so overrated, Liverpool bottled the league not just because they weren't scoring but also they conceded a lot of goals against mediocre teams. Van Den Ven & maybe Gabriel should be the 2 CB of the season.

This is an embarrassment of a football knowledge. How can he possibly consider destiny in this season when he’s only kept 2 clean sheets and has 40 goals conceded he’s had 3 goals in mistakes and commits a huge amount of fouls. Compared to the numbers that have been made by Gusto who has more goals assists the same amount of clean sheets and has half the goals conceded. The fact that he has picked two players from a treble winning team that is gonna probably win the double this season is a joke in itself. He said olegaurd has the same amount of goal/assits as KDB in double the amount of games he’s well behind Saka and the inclusion of VVD says it all.

Simon is a hardcore City fan

In fairness to Simon. Danny is a muppet. 😂

Danny... cannot believe it.... not one Man Utd player... cannot understand that. Think Gibbs White needs an honourable mention.

No chance vvd gets ahead of Gabriel, c'mon Danny are you serious 😂😂😂

Ye i would have watkins over haaland aswell considering he is playing in a team that gives him less chances and he is not on pens

Van dijk ahead of Gabriel is nothing short of an embarrassment

Jesus Christ, Simon. Stop being such a contrarian.

Danny is just doing his job.He's got to act like theres more to this and he's trying to see things others don't as he regularly reminds us that he's played game and watches football for his job. I've also played and I watch the game, and in no planet does VVD get in the team of the season. The Watkins things is just too much.

Could haaland to it for Everton or west ham if he was there city is a team full of superstars that drop the ball to he’s feet and ask what laces he wants the ball on

What about Ake, Akanji or Josko? Oh yeah they play for Man City. Danny Murphy the clown.

Haaland scored more but Watkins assisted + scored a fair few - overall he’s done better all round

Van Dijk is slow and if you watch him when Liverpool concede, he always blames a team mate

Raya Saliba VVD Gabriel Saka Rice Rodri Foden Palmer Watkins Haaland

Ollie dont take pens if he did he would be on way more than haarland

go on danny boy

Villa been the team of the season.

Blind pew 😂. Simon is my kind of pundit, he cuts through the noise and the distraction. I always feel like I have learned something when I listen to him, maybe he has too!

Tielemans is the signing of the season - FREE. In a world of FFP/PSR, FREE! 💜💙🦁

VVD & Saliba? 😅 Saliba’s not even had a better season than Gabriel so don’t get me started on VVD 😅😅

Watkins is completely correct, hallands missed games and his overall play is terrible

Vvd? My god 😂 both arsenal CB should be the main ones

Virgil 😂😂😂 over Gabriel?

I'v definitely watched more football than Danny Murphy this season, and yes it was most probably illegal but i'v still watched more, I even watch J League games on Saturday mornings on KZfaq

English media revere mediocrity, so I'm not surprised here with danny choosing watkins..

Watkins is brilliant no doubt but haarland and Kane above him

I've played the game

Be careful Danny. Haland is not the best striker in the world. Also I think saka should be considered if van dyke was.

Haaland scores a lot, then? It means that everyone in ManCity are creating for him, instead of creating for each other to have everyone scoring. The TOTAL number of goals that ManCity scores is not going to be increased because Haaland is there. He just takes away the number of goals his teammates could have scored. English fans and a lot of casual fans overrate G/A and efficiency. They forget that where do G/A comes from. They are from build up play. If you have a high G/A but you don’t have much build up play contribution, it means that you are just taking the G/A from your teammates, because the TOTAL overall G/A of your TEAM, won’t increase if you don’t add more build up play into it.