Gerard Brand

De Bruyne hasn't started this season, which maybe underlines his importance to Pep Guardiola as well.

Nick, Gerrard obviously talking up the importance of the word individual in the player of the season prize.

Van Dijk obviously won it last season when Liverpool ran us up to City.

How do you feel about a City player picking it up when Liverpool have been so dominant in the Premier League?

Yeah, I remember that wonderful quote from Klopp a couple of years ago, wasn't it?

Where he said, the only person on the planet who doesn't know that Sadio Mane is world-class is Sadio Mane.

And I think he's since said that Mane has started to appreciate his place and his importance to this team.

But that sort of humble...

humble attitude and approach that he has to the game as well is so endearing.

Talk about stats there, Nick, but on the other side of the coin, only three Premier League forwards have made more tackles than Mane this season.

That commitment to the team and that Klopp style has really been a big factor in him transforming into what we're talking about is one of the best players in the Premier League from the player he was when he was at Southampton.

OK, well, obviously, Jamie's gone through his five contenders in quite...

in-depth detail, but just one more for you two to knock about and to discuss.

Jordan Henderson, because for quite a long time, Mane was favourite to pick up this award.

And then there was a moment in sort of January, February time where Henderson seemed to come to the fore and he actually moved to the top of the betting markets, I think, for a little while in January and February before Mane is now back and sort of expected to pick up this prize.

Jordan Henderson, as I said to Jamie earlier, doesn't have the assists and the goal stats that, say, De Bruyne or Mane or some of the other players on this list have got.

But he brings a sort of X factor, doesn't he?

He brings a real leadership to this Liverpool team.

And the Liverpool captain, after 30 years without the title, if he was to pick up the Premier League Player of the Year award, that would be quite good.

Oh, Gerrard's just fallen off his stool at the thought of Henderson winning it ahead of De Bruyne.