{"id":1413,"date":"2026-05-19T10:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:37:12","slug":"gary-neville-picks-more-man-city-than-arsenal-players-in-toty-and-one-obvious-man-utd-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"Gary Neville picks more Man City than Arsenal players in TOTY and one obvious Man Utd star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Gary Neville has omitted Arsenal right-back Jurrien Timber from his Premier League Team of the Season, but Jamie Carragher has not, with the two Sky Sports pundits also including Manchester United attacking midfielder Bruno Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal<\/strong> have been the best team in the Premier League this season and could become the champions of England for the first time since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta\u2019s side have also reached the final of the Champions League, where they will face last season\u2019s champions, Paris Saint-Germain.<\/p>\n<p>As Arsenal march towards glory, former Manchester United star <strong>Gary Neville<\/strong> and ex-Liverpool ace <strong>Jamie Carragher<\/strong> have been picking their respective Team of the Season.<\/p>\n<p>Just as you expect, both the Sky Sports pundits have chosen a number of Arsenal players,<\/p>\n<p>Both Neville and Carragher believe that Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya has been the best player in his position in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: Liverpool: Carragher compares \u2018selfish\u2019 Salah to Man Utd hero after Slot \u2018bomb\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two pundits have picked Arsenal centre-backs William Saliba and Gabriel.<\/p>\n<p>Former Liverpool defender Carragher believes that Arsenal star Jurrien Timber has been the best right-back in the Premier League this season.<\/p>\n<p>However, former Man Utd right-back Neville has picked Matheus Nunes of Manchester City instead.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Neville has picked more <strong>Man City<\/strong> players than Arsenal stars in his Team of the Season.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"84d65181a95c24c4fea73e44b4e27a17\" image-id=\"ltKDe85TEtHp\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bernardo Silva, Nico O\u2019Reilly, Antoine Semenyo, Jeremy Doku and Erling Haaland are the other Man City players in the former Man Utd star\u2019s Team of the Season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: Liverpool maintains place as biggest club in England with huge kit launch plan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neville also believes that <strong>Man Utd<\/strong> attacking midfielder Bruno Fernandes deserves a place in the Team of the Season, and Carragher agrees.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher, too, has picked Fernandes as his only Man Utd player in his Team of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky Sports pundit has also picked O\u2019Reilly, Semenyo, Haaland and Silva in his team.<\/p>\n<p>Carragher added that he would pick Rice over Fernandes as the Premier League Player of the Season.<\/p>\n<p>The pundit explained: \u201cNo, I don\u2019t quite understand it and I\u2019m a huge fan of Bruno.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when I\u2019m deciding on Player of the Year and you\u2019re picking a player whose games this season have not had any real jeopardy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, I\u2019d go with\u00a0Declan Rice. You think of the\u00a0Champions League\u00a0semi-finals, I think he was outstanding against\u00a0Atletico Madrid\u00a0and he\u2019s been a driving force for\u00a0Arsenal\u00a0and the reason he dropped off a bit around the\u00a0Man City\u00a0games and the cup final was probably fatigue was because they were constantly playing midweek games because they\u2019re in all the elite competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018With\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0they went out in the first round of both cup competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t have Europe which is nothing to do with Bruno, but I can\u2019t think of many big games this season that Bruno\u2019s been involved in and you going in thinking this is on the line and he\u2019s got to produce here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He\u2019s had a fantastic season but no, I would go with Declan Rice because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both Neville and Carragher have chosen Arsenal and England international midfielder Declan Rice.<\/p>\n<h2>Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher\u2019s Team of the Season<\/h2>\n<p>Brentford striker Igor Thiago also finds a spot in Carragher\u2019s line-up.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Jamie Carragher &#038; Gary Neville reveal their Premier League Team of the Season! &#x1f440; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/keGFfldZiE\">pic.twitter.com\/keGFfldZiE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/2056444450495184943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MAILBOX: Chelsea and Xabi Alonso an \u2018odd match\u2019 as Klopp comparison made<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Neville has omitted Arsenal right-back Jurrien Timber from his Premier League Team of the Season, but Jamie Carragher has not, with the two Sky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}