De Gea named In PFA Team Of The Year

Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea has been named in the PFA Team of the Year for the third time in his career, capping yet another excellent campaign for the Spaniard.

Every player from the 20 Premier League clubs voted to decide the 2015/16 starting XI and this is the third time De Gea has been involved, having previously made the cut in 2012/13 and 2014/15.

United’s influential no.1 is the only member of Louis van Gaal’s squad to be involved in the team that is dominated by four players each from title rivals Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur, with the two remaining places going to Arsenal’s Hector Bellerin and West Ham’s Dimitri Payet.

PFA Team of the Year: David De Gea (Manchester United), Hector Bellerin (Arsenal), Wes Morgan (Leicester City), Toby Alderweireld (Tottenham Hotspur), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City), Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), N’Golo Kante (Leicester City), Dimitri Payet (West Ham United), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City).

As is tradition, the PFA had planned to reveal their many Teams of the Year on Sunday night at its annual awards dinner, but they were forced to release them all on Thursday after the Premier League side was leaked in a photograph on social media. A statement on the organisation's website read:

“The PFA is disappointed that a member of the public has chosen to deliberately leak our representative teams from the official brochure of the Awards Evening.

“As a matter of urgency, we are seeking a detailed explanation from the brochure printers as to how they were able to secure a copy of the publication.

“The unveiling of the PFA representative teams is eagerly awaited by our members and football fans throughout the country and we hope that the unfortunate leak does not affect the wide-ranging debate and discussion which accompanies their normal release on the day of the event.”