The 10 Premier League stars of the season – Two Newcastle United players included | OneFootball

Who are the Premier League stars of the season?

Who are the stand outs from these past eight months?

Journalist and commentator Ian Darke has had a careful look, picking out the 10 Premier League players who he believes have been a cut above the rest.

Some interesting selections and none more so than the two Newcastle United players he has included.

Ian Darke talking to ESPN – 16 April 2025:

‘Perhaps things can change in the last month of the season when the trophies are handed out, but in truth, it’s been an entertaining, up-and-down season in which only a chosen few have consistently sprinkled stardust on proceedings.

So here goes with my short list of the season’s star players:

1. Mohamed Salah, FW, Liverpool

2. Alexander Isak, FW, Newcastle United Balletic and deadly, the 24-goal Sweden international has been almost unstoppable at times and fittingly scored a superb goal at Wembley as Newcastle lifted their first domestic trophy in 70 years when they won the Carabao Cup against Liverpool. His transfer cost £63 million from Real Sociedad in 2022 and would be worth at least double that now. Isak would be a target for most top European clubs if he became available, which is why it’s important for Newcastle to offer him Champions League football next season.

3. Nikola Milenkovic, DF, Nottingham Forest

4. Morgan Rogers, MF, Aston Villa

5. Milos Kerkez, DF, Bournemouth

6. Virgil van Dijk, DF, Liverpool

7. Carlos Baleba, MF, Brighton

8. Myles Lewis-Skelly, DF/MF, Arsenal

9. Ryan Gravenberch, MF, Liverpool

10. Dan Burn, DF, Newcastle One of the best stories of the season, Burn was stacking supermarket shelves and playing non-league football for Darlington in 2011, but he battled his way up the pyramid and moved to Fulham, then Wigan and Brighton, before landing at Newcastle for £13m in 2022. The 6-foot-7 defender was usually positioned at centre-back but converted to left-back and scored a classic header in Newcastle’s Carabao Cup triumph last month (to end the club’s 70-year wait for a domestic trophy) and won his first England cap a few days later. He gets in this top 10 on that basis alone.

An interesting choice of Premier League stars by Ian Darke.

For sure, Alexander Isak and Dan Burn fully deserving to be included.

Hopefully they (and the rest of the Newcastle United team/squad) prove this even more in these last six weeks of the season.