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Salah Wins PFA Player of the Year Award for Unprecedented Third Time 

Liverpool's Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah poses with the Men's PFA Players' Player of the Year award backstage during the 2024-2025 Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) awards, at the Opera House in Manchester, northern England, on August 19, 2025. (AFP)
Liverpool's Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah poses with the Men's PFA Players' Player of the Year award backstage during the 2024-2025 Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) awards, at the Opera House in Manchester, northern England, on August 19, 2025. (AFP)
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Salah Wins PFA Player of the Year Award for Unprecedented Third Time 

Liverpool's Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah poses with the Men's PFA Players' Player of the Year award backstage during the 2024-2025 Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) awards, at the Opera House in Manchester, northern England, on August 19, 2025. (AFP)
Liverpool's Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah poses with the Men's PFA Players' Player of the Year award backstage during the 2024-2025 Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) awards, at the Opera House in Manchester, northern England, on August 19, 2025. (AFP)

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was named the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Player of the Year on Tuesday, with the Egyptian becoming the first player to win the award three times.

Salah, who joined Liverpool in 2017, was the Premier League's top scorer last season, with his 29 goals, along with 18 assists, playing a key role in the club winning the league title, finishing 10 points ahead of runners-up Arsenal.

The 33-year-old had already clinched the Premier League Player of the Season award, the Golden Boot for most goals scored and the Playmaker award for most assists, making him the first player to win all three awards in the same season.

Salah first won the PFA award in 2018 after his first season at Liverpool, and again in 2022, and this year came out on top of a six-man shortlist, voted for by PFA members from the 92 Premier League and Football League teams.

That shortlist included his Liverpool teammate Alexis Mac Allister, along with Newcastle United's Alexander Isak, Manchester United's Bruno Fernandes, Arsenal's Declan Rice and Chelsea's Cole Palmer.

Salah signed a two-year contract extension with Liverpool in April, ending months of speculation linking him with a move to the Saudi Pro League.

Aston Villa and England midfielder Morgan Rogers was voted Young Player of the Year, after the 23-year-old scored eight league goals in his 37 starts last season and netted four goals in the Champions League including a hat-trick against Celtic.

Arsenal midfielder Mariona Caldentey was named Women's Player of the Year. The Spaniard scored nine league goals in her first season with the club along with eight goals in the Champions League where Arsenal beat her former club Barcelona to win the trophy.

Canadian 21-year-old forward Olivia Smith, Liverpool's leading scorer last season across all competitions with nine goals, picked up the Young Player of the Year award.

Smith has since joined Arsenal for a reported fee of one million pounds ($1.35 million), making her the first female player to break the seven-figure barrier.

Liverpool had four players from last season, including Salah, named in the Premier League team of the year, along with new signing from Bournemouth, Milos Kerkez.

Premier League Team of the Year:

Matz Sels (Nottingham Forest); Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool), Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth), William Saliba (Arsenal), Gabriel Magalhaes (Arsenal); Declan Rice (Arsenal), Ryan Gravenberch (Liverpool), Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool); Mohamed Salah (Liverpool), Alexander Isak (Newcastle United), Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest).

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Everton Hope to Pile Merseyside Derby Blues on Liverpool at New Stadium

Football - Premier League - Brentford v Everton - GTech Community Stadium, London, Britain - April 11, 2026 Everton manager David Moyes reacts. (Action Images via Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Brentford v Everton - GTech Community Stadium, London, Britain - April 11, 2026 Everton manager David Moyes reacts. (Action Images via Reuters)
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Everton Hope to Pile Merseyside Derby Blues on Liverpool at New Stadium

Football - Premier League - Brentford v Everton - GTech Community Stadium, London, Britain - April 11, 2026 Everton manager David Moyes reacts. (Action Images via Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Brentford v Everton - GTech Community Stadium, London, Britain - April 11, 2026 Everton manager David Moyes reacts. (Action Images via Reuters)

Everton manager David Moyes wants ‌to make the Hill Dickinson Stadium a happy home and a famous win over old foes Liverpool in the first Merseyside Derby at the new venue on Sunday would go a long way to achieving that.

It has been several seasons since Everton were involved in the European reckoning, but with six games to go in the Premier League campaign they are five points off fifth-placed Liverpool in the table, a gap they could cut to two this weekend.

It was a typically feverish final Goodison Park derby last season when James Tarkowski’s volley in the dying seconds earned Everton a 2-2 ‌draw as ‌they said farewell to the Grand Old Lady.

The Hill ‌Dickinson ⁠Stadium has not ⁠quite felt like home yet for many Evertonians, but a derby win on a raucous Sunday afternoon may start to change that.

“When you move to a new stadium it's always difficult,” Moyes told reporters on Friday. “If you look through the records of all teams who have built new stadiums, it has never been easy.

“We have had our ups and downs in it, ⁠we had a great start, the bits in the ‌middle were not so good, but we ‌are finding a bit better form now.”

Moyes has repeatedly said Everton hope to finish ‌in the European places this season but added that in such ‌a tight league table they need to be wary of the teams below them too.

“All we can do is try and catch whoever is above us,” he said. “It is Brentford at the moment. But probably more important is to make sure ‌nobody catches us.

"If we stay in a strong position, we give ourselves every chance of getting something in ⁠terms of ⁠Europe.

“The biggest thing for me is that with six games to go we have something to play for. Over recent years it has been the wrong thing we have been playing for (survival). I hope we can keep the dream alive.”

Moyes confirmed there had been no talks over a new contract, with his current deal running out at the end of next season.

“There is no need to start any talks now because I have so much on my mind. These six games will be crucial as to how things go. I want Everton to be in this position every year, having a chance of the top places."

He said there were no injury concerns with midfielder Carlos Alcaraz back in contention after a lengthy injury lay-off.

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Romero Out for the Season but De Zerbi Backs Spurs to Survive

Football - Premier League - Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur - Stadium of Light, Sunderland, Britain - April 12, 2026 Tottenham Hotspur's Cristian Romero looks dejected as he is substituted off after sustaining an injury. (Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur - Stadium of Light, Sunderland, Britain - April 12, 2026 Tottenham Hotspur's Cristian Romero looks dejected as he is substituted off after sustaining an injury. (Reuters)
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Romero Out for the Season but De Zerbi Backs Spurs to Survive

Football - Premier League - Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur - Stadium of Light, Sunderland, Britain - April 12, 2026 Tottenham Hotspur's Cristian Romero looks dejected as he is substituted off after sustaining an injury. (Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur - Stadium of Light, Sunderland, Britain - April 12, 2026 Tottenham Hotspur's Cristian Romero looks dejected as he is substituted off after sustaining an injury. (Reuters)

Roberto De Zerbi confirmed on Friday Cristian Romero will miss the rest of Tottenham's battle for Premier League survival, but remains optimistic that just one win can transform his side's fortunes.

Romero suffered a knee injury, that could also endanger his place in Argentina's World Cup squad, during last weekend's 1-0 defeat by Sunderland in De Zerbi's first match in charge.

"I am really sorry for him and his injury," said De Zerbi.

"Romero first of all loves Tottenham and the people have to know he is suffering for this injury and because he cannot play any more for us this season."

Without a win in 14 league games, Spurs are two points adrift of safety with six matches of the campaign to go.

But victory against De Zerbi's former club Brighton on Saturday would propel Tottenham out of the bottom three for at least 48 hours.

"I think it is crucial to win a game not just for the table. Of course one part of the table for sure, but we have to feel again what is nice to win a game and what it can do," he added.

"I have no doubts about the quality of the players."

In a bid to build team chemistry, De Zerbi took his players out to dinner this week in London's Mayfair.

The Italian is happy to pick up the bill for more dinners in the coming weeks if he is rewarded with results on the field.

"The food was amazing and if we win, I am ready to pay every week for one dinner," said the former Marseille coach.

"I am positive, I am ready to fight and I believe to keep Premier League (status). I believe in my words that I said last week. The focus is to win one game."

Rodrigo Bentancur could make his return from a three-month injury layoff against the Seagulls.

However, first-choice goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario remains out after surgery on a hernia.

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Verstappen Gave Lambiase His Blessing for ‘Great’ McLaren Move

Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen answers questions during a show "An evening with Max Verstappen" in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16 April 2026. (EPA)
Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen answers questions during a show "An evening with Max Verstappen" in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16 April 2026. (EPA)
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Verstappen Gave Lambiase His Blessing for ‘Great’ McLaren Move

Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen answers questions during a show "An evening with Max Verstappen" in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16 April 2026. (EPA)
Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen answers questions during a show "An evening with Max Verstappen" in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16 April 2026. (EPA)

Max Verstappen encouraged ‌his Red Bull race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase to move to McLaren after the Briton received an offer that was hard to refuse.

Lambiase will switch teams when his contract expires at the end of 2027 and join McLaren as their chief racing officer in a move announced last week.

"He told me what kind of offer he received," four-times ‌world champion ‌Verstappen said at a recent ‌Viaplay ⁠event in Amsterdam ⁠in his first public comments on the announcement. "I said: 'You would be stupid not to do that'.

"We have already achieved everything together. And then he gets such a great offer, also with his family in mind ⁠and the security it would give ‌him.

"He asked me ‌for a sort of permission and I said ‌that he absolutely had to do it. ‌He really wanted to hear that from me."

Lambiase will be the latest in a string of senior employees to have left once-dominant Red ‌Bull, with former principal Christian Horner sacked last year.

Verstappen's own future at ⁠the ⁠team remains uncertain, with the Dutch driver contracted to 2028 but unhappy with rule changes in a new engine era.

Red Bull announced on Thursday changes to their technical leadership team, with Ben Waterhouse taking on an expanded role as chief performance and design engineer with immediate effect.

From July 1, Andrea Landi will join from sister team Racing Bulls, where he was deputy technical director, as head of performance.