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Charlotte Coates

Man City defender Aymeric Laporte reacts after PFA snub as Liverpool stars dominate

The PFA Team of the Season was announced on Thursday night - and Manchester City's Aymeric Laporte was seemingly not happy he was left out.

Virgil van Dijk was named as one of the two centre halves, with former Chelsea player Antonio Rudiger paired next to the Liverpool man.

The Reds dominated the PFA Team of the Season with Alisson Becker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Thiago Alcantara, Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane all joining Van Dijk. Salah was named the PFA Player of the Season for the second time in his career.

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Man City trio Joao Cancelo, Kevin De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva accompanied Cristiano Ronaldo to make up the 11 players voted for by their fellow peers.

Perhaps the most surprising omission from the team was joint Golden Boot winner and Spurs star Son Heung-min after he scored 23 goals, with none of them coming from the penalty spot.

Premier League winners City had three inclusions in the XI and Laporte has taken to social media, in what appears to be a disgruntled message after being overlooked.

The defender said on Twitter it was best not to speak by posting the Jose Mourinho meme - but he decided to do so anyway, albeit on a different platform.

His first Instagram story was to show that he had the highest passing accuracy of any player in the 21/22 season with 94.8%. He then backed that up with a screenshot of the list of players who made the most completed passes, which he topped with 2767.

Several more posts followed with stats from Squawka, LiveScore and elsewhere - along with a caption that simply said "2021-2022" together with an eyes emoji.

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