{"id":33208,"date":"2024-05-21T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-paul-merson-reveals-deserving-epl-seasons-best-player-over-man-citys-phil-foden\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T14:00:38","slug":"epl-paul-merson-reveals-deserving-epl-seasons-best-player-over-man-citys-phil-foden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-paul-merson-reveals-deserving-epl-seasons-best-player-over-man-citys-phil-foden\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Paul Merson reveals deserving EPL season\u2019s best player over Man City\u2019s Phil Foden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Arsenal legend, Paul Merson argued that Declan Rice should have been named Premier League Player of the Season instead of Manchester City\u2019s Phil Foden.<\/p>\n<p>Foden had a stellar 2023\/24 season with City, scoring 19 goals and providing eight assists, helping his team secure the league title.<\/p>\n<p>However, Merson believes that Rice, who joined Arsenal for \u00a3105 million last summer, had a more transformative impact.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Sky Sports (via Arsenal Insider), Merson said, \u201cDeclan Rice has taken Arsenal to another level. I think Phil Foden has not taken Manchester City to another level. I think he has been outstanding but Declan Rice has taken the Gunners to another level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just nearly got them to where Manchester City are. I think he has been consistent the whole season. I mean Phil Foden has been outstanding. But, I am just thinking outside the box, just what I see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Paul Merson reveals deserving EPL season\u2019s best player over Man City\u2019s Phil Foden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal legend, Paul Merson argued that Declan Rice should have been named Premier League Player of the Season instead of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,1031,15,6912,15444,160],"tags":[1033,156,2661,202,2308,180,2325,15445,201],"class_list":["post-33208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epl","category-man-city","category-news","category-paul-merson","category-phil-foden","category-sport","tag-city","tag-epl","tag-foden","tag-man","tag-merson","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-phil","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}