Salah edges out De Bruyne for PFA Player of the Year honour

Mohamed Salah has been named the PFA Player of the Year for the 2017-18 season in the midst of an impressive debut campaign with Liverpool.

Salah pipped Manchester City trio Kevin De Bruyne, David Silva, and Leroy Sane, as well as Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea and Tottenham Hotspur forward Harry Kane, for the individual prize. De Bruyne finished runner-up in the voting process while Kane rounded out the top three.

Salah is now the seventh Liverpool player to ever win the award and the first since Luis Suarez following the Uruguayan's stellar 2013-14 campaign - his last with Liverpool before moving to Barcelona in July 2014.

Playing in his first season with the Merseysiders after spending the previous two with Roma in Serie A, the 25-year-old Egyptian international has scored a total of 41 goals for Liverpool across all competitions, with a record-tying 31 coming in the Premier League. He needs just one more goal in the remaining three matches to secure the record for the most goals scored in a 38-game season, separating himself from a revered pack in the process.

N'Golo Kante was last year's winner of the award after an impressive debut campaign with Chelsea.