Goals and assists are what our nine nominees for the 2022 Fans' Footballer of the Year excel at, with Newcastle ’s Bruno Guimaraes the most defensive of the nine on our shortlist.
Does the Magpies’ Brazilian star deserve to be the first winner of the award whose name is not Mohamed Salah? Are we in danger of taking Salah and Harry Kane ’s goalscoring exploits for granted? And is leading your country to glory, as Beth Mead did, the only true metric for gauging the year’s best player?
We look at how the nine players’ stats stack up to help you decide on which way your vote is going - and remember to cast your vote here...
