Rodri predicted Phil Foden might go on to turn out to be 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 gained in Could, 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 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 means 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 blissful about Phil. To be sincere he’s an excellent child, a really shy child. For me, he has the power to be the most effective 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 recreation, already he’s the most effective gamers within the league and in Europe.
“I believe he might get even higher. The standard, ambition and laborious work he has daily listening to outdated folks like me is essential.
“He was excellent final season and it’s the primary season I noticed him carrying the workforce 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 yr 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 Crew of the Yr, was additionally effusive in his reward for the England man.
“He’s an awesome man, I actually get pleasure from enjoying with him and joking with him,” Haaland stated.
“Phil is unbelievable, a number of the stuff he does in coaching that nobody sees can be unbelievable, I’m fortunate to play with him.”
