POTY= The Manchester United player of the year award.
Sancho future hinges on Chelsea contract talkspublished at 11:47 30 May
11:47 30 May
Nizaar Kinsella BBC Sport football news reporter
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Chelsea are in contract talks to sign winger Jadon Sancho on permanent basis from Manchester United.
The 25-year-old is keen to stay at Stamford Bridge but it will require him to take a pay-cut from his deal at Old Trafford.
The Blues had already agreed an obligation to buy worth between £20m-£25m, as long as Chelsea finished above 15th place, which they easily achieved when finishing fourth and qualifying for next season's Champions League.
However, there is a way out of the deal through a £5m penalty clause payable to United should a failure to agree personal cause the move to collapse.
Sancho scored in the 4-1 win over Real Betis on Wednesday to help Chelsea win the Conference League, ending the season with five goals and 10 assists in 42 games.
What if... the season started in January?published at 11:32 30 May
11:32 30 May
Nicola Pearson BBC Sport journalist
As the dust settles on the 2024-25 Premier League season, we have been taking a look at some of the alternative ways the the table could have finished...
A Premier League season can sometimes be a tale of two halves.
Some come flying out of the blocks, while others are more sluggish starters.
The busy Christmas period can be a turning point with the arrival of the January transfer window feeling like a fresh start.
So what might have happened if the league season only start on 1 January?
Well, Pep Guardiola's title-winning machines would have picked up their fifth Premier League trophy in a row.
Playing one game fewer than actual champions Liverpool - who secured the title with four games remaining - they would have finished one point clear of the Reds, not withstanding Arne Slot's side slowdown in form after sealing the title.
City always seem to come good after January, but this time it was not enough to outweigh the torrid time they had from late autumn.
The rest of the top six is not too dissimilar to the final placings, although in this case, Aston Villa would have secured Champions League football and Brighton a Europa League spot in the absence of Chelsea - whose form nose-dived at the very beginning of the year.
And while the new year is a new start for some, it is less so for others.
That was the case for many of those down the bottom of the league.
The relegated trio would still have been relegated and Manchester United and Tottenham would still have ended up in the bottom six. West Ham find themselves one place lower after Wolves picked up form under Vitor Pereira.
So what does this tell us? If you wan to achieve your Premier League ambitions, it is about making sure you are there for nine months and not just from January.
Antony, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho all left the club on loan in the past nine months - seeking to revitalise their careers.
But with the season now over and the transfer window set to open, will they spend the summer looking for the Old Trafford exit door?
All three players have had their fair share of success since leaving Manchester.
Sancho scored as Chelsea were crowned Conference League winners on Wednesday, Antony has become a hero at Real Betis and Rashford helped Aston Villa to a Champions League quarter-final and a sixth placed finish in the Premier League.
Whilst Rashford's season ended prematurely with injury, he still managed 11 goals in all competitions, with Antony on 10 and Sancho five - after his strike against Real Betis.
According to Opta stats from before the Conference League final, Rashford (0.41) and Antony (0.37) have a better goals-per-90 minutes average than any other forward players in the United squad.
In 26 matches since the latter ed Betis, the La Liga side have won 13 games and drawn eight, losing only five. In that time they have scored 52 goals, with Antony contributing to 14 of them, supplying nine goals and five assists.
Sancho and Rashford both have eight assists this season, with only Bruno Fernandes (18) and Alejandro Garnacho (10) of their United team-mates getting more.
Both Rashford and Antony ended the season tied with Garnacho and Amad Diallo on three goal-ending carries each - the t highest in the entire United squad.
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While Sancho was let go by previous boss Erik ten Hag, it was Ruben Amorim who allowed both Antony and Rashford to leave on loan in January.
The former played just 252 minutes in 15 games under the new boss before departing for Spain.
As for Rashford, a disciplinary issue in December saw him dropped from the squad, before his own loan move in January.
Amorim said at the time: "I couldn't get Marcus to see the way you're supposed to play football and to train the way I see it."
"It's something that you feel as a coach and as a player. It's quite normal. It happened with a lot of coaches," he added.
All three still remain contracted to United, but have not gone on the club's post-season trip of Asia.
It has not been ruled out that they could be moved on to help ease financial pressure, ahead of a big summer for Amorim and the clubs owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
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