With the PFA Player of the Year still ahead of us, the usual star names are in the frame to collect the award.
Mohamed Salah, William Saliba and Erling Haaland may all feel they deserve recognition, but it’s Salah’s teammate Darwin Nunez that Johnson thinks has done enough so far this season.
After an inconsistent debut season last year, he has 18 goals already this year and looks much more confident in front of goal, despite some occasional mistakes.
Johnson thinks that Nunez is only edged out by Haaland as the striker he would want in his side.
He told Squawka: “I’d probably go with a surprise, someone like Darwin Nunez.
“People were saying that he doesn’t score enough goals, but when you think about the way that he plays, he’s probably the last person that you want to play against in the Premier League and that’s saying something with the other players that are available, but yeah I’d probably go with someone like Nunez because he’d probably be the first striker, other than Haaland, that I’d want in my team.”
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