Rodri predicted Phil Foden may go on to develop into England’s greatest-ever participant after he was topped PFA Gamers’ Participant of the Yr for the 2023-24 season on Tuesday.
Foden added the highest males’s PFA prize to the Premier League Participant of the Season award he received in Might, having impressed Manchester Metropolis to their fourth straight league title final time period.
He scored 19 league targets and added eight assists in 2023-24, together with very important hat-tricks in opposition to Brentford and Aston Villa and a surprising final-day strike versus West Ham.
Rodri was additionally thought-about among the many contenders for the PFA prize after going unbeaten by way of all 34 of his Premier League appearances final season (27 wins, seven attracts), however the Spaniard believes his team-mate was a worthy victor.
“I’m so, so comfortable about Phil. To be trustworthy he’s an excellent child, a really shy child. For me, he has the flexibility to be the perfect English participant in historical past when he finishes his profession,” Rodri stated at Tuesday’s award ceremony.
“He must maintain the extent up in his sport, already he’s among the finest gamers within the league and in Europe.
“I feel he may get even higher. The standard, ambition and laborious work he has day by day listening to previous individuals like me is essential.
“He was excellent final season and it’s the primary season I noticed him carrying the crew on his again.”
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Foden is the primary Englishman to win the PFA Participant’s Participant of the Yr award since Wayne Rooney in 2010, and the primary to take action in the identical 12 months as profitable the Premier League title since John Terry in 2005.
Golden Boot winner Erling Haaland, who joined Rodri and Foden in being voted into the PFA Premier League Group of the Yr, was additionally effusive in his reward for the England man.
“He’s an ideal man, I actually take pleasure in taking part in with him and joking with him,” Haaland stated.
“Phil is unbelievable, a few of the stuff he does in coaching that nobody sees can also be unbelievable, I’m fortunate to play with him.”
