Shaka Hislop, Steve Nicol, Julien Laurens and Jan Aage Fjortoft join Alexis Nunes to react to Juls’ 2025 Best XI and crown ESPN FC’s 2025 Player of the Year.
0:00 Julien Laurens’ 2025 Best XI
5:40 Player of the Year
7:22 Nominees list
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You mean Luigi Donnarumma…
You mean Achraf Hakimi?
What about Raphina… this is getting out of hand
You mean KVaratshkelia?
Haaland might be the best 9…
Where’s Haaland???
The disrespect he gets is ridiculous
No Raphina or Haaland
Wait wait wait….its ESPN PLAYER OF THE YEAR. Not HALF the year. Ever since the UCL final, Dembele hasn't really been seen. And its not to say that he's underperformed of anything. Its almost completely down to injuries. I just feel like there's other players this year who would have a better claim to the best all year long.
Alexis though 👌
Gabriel over saliba. Otherwise perfect
Vitinha POTY. Saliba didnt win anything, so VVD instead
I don't agree for the decision for Ousmane Dembele to crown the 2025 ESPN FC player of the Year if PSG currently sit as the third place team in Champions league league phase and second place in a domestic league.
No raphinha hard pass, drop rice play 4231
Ask yourself. You’re building a team and are able to chose any current player to start off with, there is no sane person who would choose Dembele as there first choice. No one.
i needs to take a drug test i cannot believe this
only shaka top 3 making sense
Disgraceful
What a complete bunch of idiots,failed footballers and journalists, no one should take their opinions seriously
Dembele won a ballon d or but if we’re being real Raphinha ,mbappe and Yamal deserve to team of the year he doesn’t even make my team
lol 😝 Europe has been a joke without a Messi or Ronaldo it’s been weak
Mbappe?
Remember: Laurens's wife works at Arsenal. How Rice keeps being in these midfields is beyond funny. Did PSG not have the best midfield in '25? Does Vitinha play alone in there? Rice was in no way better than Joao Neves or Fabian Ruiz. As for the CB position, how was Saliba better than Van Dijk? For team that's won nothing, Arsenal surely have a lot of "great" players. Arteta must be severly underachieving. In attack, any list where Raphinha isn't the first name is wrong.
So Raphina is in the top 5 of best players according to The panel,but he is not in the best 11😂
The comments are as expected. Everybody knows better.
My 11
Mbappe. – Demble – Rapinha
Pedri – Vitinha. – Barella
Mendes. – Bastoni – Pacho – Hakimi
DONNARUMA
1) Yamal can come in for either Mbappe, Barella or Rapinha
2) Gabriel would be my 3rd choice CB
3) Harry Kane, Olise, Kavicha and Hallend would be my Attacking substitute