http://myweeklysports.com/alexis-sanchez-deserved-pfa-player-year-award-heres/
I know a lot will disagree. But I would argue in favor of this because he carried Arsenal through some tough times. Yes Hazard is amazing, and yes he deserves it. But Hazard also has been playing for the best team in the premier league, with the best players in the bpl.

Thoughts?

Yes, Alexis does have a very strong case for it. Hazard has been great throughout the season, but I think Chelsea would've won the title even without Hazard. Nevertheless, he played a vital role in their title winning campaign. Alexis was absolutely amazing in the first half of the season, but faded during the second. Personally speaking, I would've given it to De Gea.

This is really tight... I would still go for Hazard (if not De Gea). He's the only sparking point in Chelsea's attack :D

I would've given to Sanchez or De Gea. But I think it went to Hazard, because they won the title. If that's a big factor, then obviously it was given to Hazard rightly so, if it didn't matter I think it would be wrong as said before :-) Just an opinion anyways!

Everyone named Hazard 3rd best player in the world after Messi and Ronaldo. including Zidane and many others. So It was an easy decision. Sanchez on the other hand is a player I wish we have, he is a hard working player. Imagine this 3 behind the striker (Hazard - Willian - Sanchez) ..

I think that De Gea deserved it more than Hazard or Alexis.

No, Alexis Sanchez did not deserve to win it. Hazard was the only logical choice, as he basically carried the whole team that won the Premier League on his own. Our collective performance is dependent on Hazard, if he decides to have a - let's say - 'day off', the entire team plays really bad. I admit that he didn't really perform up to his standards in the last 3 or 4 games, but other than that he was absolutely phenomenal and was the only one to never disappoint from our team. If it only went by goals.. sure, give it to Alexis. But goals don't show the whole picture, it takes much more than that to be important for the team and I'd say that Hazard was more influential than Alexis (Alexis also had a 2 months period in which he wasn't that impressive at all). I don't want to go into detail for every single point I make because I don't really have a lot of time now, but there are other reasons which lead me to the assumption that Hazards job is more difficult than Alexis' like the fact that almost all teams park the bus against Chelsea as you like to call it, while Arsenals opponents don't approach them overly defensive and the fact that Alexis often played in a central position where it's easier to have a bigger influence to the game. Don't get me wrong, Alexis is a fantastic player and maybe next year he'll win the award, but this year Hazard was the undisputed winner.

As for De Gea, I don't think that goalkeepers should even be in the shortlists of these awards. Of course they are very important, but they just don't have the same influence as an outfield player.

Hazard is undoubtedly the most important player in Chelsea. Even though he's the most tackled player in the BPL he has a lot higher pass completion, lot higher successful passes, more key passes, more chances created than Sanchez! And they have both scored 14 goals so far.. Hazard fully deserves the award! He's been consistent all season as well which is a contributing factor to why he got it!

"I think Chelsea would've won the title even without Hazard. "
I have to disagree with this one. Hazard was their main man, I highly doubt they would have been that consistent without him. He didn't faded , just the team step up and we're not relying just on his shoulders like we did on the start of the season.

Plot twist: Imagine Arsenal winning the league. would you still give Hazard the award? Or would you give it to the Alexis/De Gea?
Hard choosing one of these 3. Alexis was best player first half above all, but Hazard and De Gea are probably overall this season above him.

@Juan: "As for De Gea, I don't think that goalkeepers should even be in the shortlists of these awards. Of course they are very important, but they just don't have the same influence as an outfield player"... agree without your other points but this is as wrong as it can be. Without a goal, team cant win... who stop the goals? Goalie!!!

I believe goalies should have their own award, honestly we can't say whether a goalie was better than an outfield player or vice versa. Not only in BPL, but in Football overall. Goalies deserve more credit than what they are gaining now. It's really difficult to say de gea deserves it more than hazard, in fact lloris was amazing as well, if not better than De gea. So comparing players to goalie shouldn't even be considered.

Deciding between hazard and Alexis, I believe the Chelsea game vs psg and spurs explains how hazard works his ass off for Chelsea. Plus Arsenal has a world class team that should easily win trophies. It's that they lack something in their build-up. Especially when they are 1 goal down.

In my eyes, We can't say this team had better than that. This isn't FIFA 15 this is reality. Look at Sevilla and Valencia, they have good players but aren't even near the level of arsenal, yet look at their performance against Madrid and barca. I fear these teams more than any BPL team (no offence) but they play to win you can see their eagerness in their game. So how can you judge about world class teams. It's about the chemistry and team passion along with coach tactics. Not individually.

If that was the case why didn't Barcelona and Real Madrid win all the UCL games in the past years. On paper they have the best teams in the world, yet we struggle against mid table la ligas teams. Think about team circumstances, not fifa stats.

EDIT: I was on my phone when I typed this, so sorry for any grammar mistakes or spelling error.

Speaking of talented players in the EPL... remember when United fans were calling me out for saying that di Maria isn't as good as he appears to be? Yeah, what happened to him? I was repeatedly telling United fans that di Maria is one of the most inconsistent players I had ever seen, and even Mourinho became frustrated at him. No one believed me because they were too busy dwelling on di Maria's 2013/14 campaign and forgot all about his games from 2010-13. Look at him now...

Hazard deserves it, he's been the better player, he just hasn't scored/assisted as much as others. For me, if it wasn't for injuries Aguero would have easily won it. Another thing, Hazard has won this award being a much worse player than Bale or Suarez were when they won it, because both of them were out of this world when they won this award. This being said, I think Hazard is a worthy winner of this award.

This year it wasn't a one man show, but one team show.

Sanchez deserves it more than HAZARD

this guy^ have some good arguments..

^ He be like "Fonte deserves it"

What? Coutinho obviously deserves it most. lol, how did that kid get on the team of the season again?? So much bias. Sigurosson was easily better in every way.

if football was about goals and assist then zidane, figo and other great footballer would've never won a ballon d'or or players like roberto carlos or makelele wouldn't be recognized as legends.

So Hazard won the PWA as well with staggering 53% of the votes from the sport journalists. Best ranked player in the BPL according to both Squawka/opta and whoscored as well.

And another diagram for you.. The size of the circle represents the volume of through-balls each player has attempted – the other two elements are total passes, and total chances created!

http://eplindex.com/67970/top-chance-creators-since-2011-12-midfielders.html

So basically Sanchez provides more throughballs. 'While it might only seem prudent to compare their outputs for their respective teams via direct metrics, it would be slightly misleading as both players are different in their own right. Hazard is a gifted attacking midfielder who has firmly bought into the Mourinho philosophy of defending from the front. Now Hazard doesn’t just stand when he has lost the ball, but he instead makes an effort to chase it back down. Au contraire, Sanchez is pretty much a luxury player. Yes, he is brilliant in attack but is not a player who could fit into the philosophy currently employed by Chelsea. His defensive contribution is negligible, if not detrimental.' -EPLindex

Nahhhh Hazard all the way.

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