De Bruyne, Salah and GOAL's Premier League Team of the Season

After a thrilling end to the English top-flight campaign, GOAL selects a line up made up of the best performers in the 2021-22 season

The Premier League season is over for another year, with Manchester City again crowned champions after a dramatic final-day win over Aston Villa.

Liverpool, Chelsea and Tottenham will join them in the Champions League next season, while Arsenal and Manchester United will have to make do with Europa League football.

It was a season with many memorable moments and where a host of top names put in consistently high-level performances on a weekly basis.

But which players deserve a place in GOAL's Premier League Team of the Season?

GK: Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal)

Arsenal finished two points short of fourth place, due primarily to an unexpected lift Tottenham received from hiring a world-class manager in Antonio Conte mid-season, but we should not let that obscure the huge progress Mikel Arteta has made, having come eighth in each of the last two seasons. 

That would not have been possible without Ramsdale, who was considered a waste of money at £24 million last summer, but turned out to be the perfect fit, pulling off brilliant saves throughout the campaign as well as laying the foundation for Arteta’s tactics with his intelligent distribution.

The goalkeeper's season tailed off as Arsenal’s did, and yet more than anyone else in the Gunners' squad, Ramsdale’s leadership, vocal instructions to his error-prone defenders, and technical ability represents Arsenal’s upward trajectory through 2021-22.