Dimitri Payet has been voted into the Premier League PFA Team of the Year by his fellow professionals
Dimitri Payet has been voted into the 2015/16 Premier League PFA Team of the Year by his fellow professionals.
The France international attacking midfielder has enjoyed an outstanding debut season with West Ham United, scoring nine goals and recording nine assists in 27 Barclays Premier League appearances.
Aside from inspiring the Club’s European challenge, Payet has added three more goals and assists apiece in the knockout competitions as the Hammers reached the Emirates FA Cup quarter-finals.
The No27 is joined in the Team of the Year by four players each from Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City, Arsenal right-back Hector Bellerin and Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea.
The outstanding 29-year-old is also among six players shortlisted for the individual PFA Men’s Player of the Year award.
Payet is just the West Ham player to be voted into the top-flight Team of the Year by his fellow professionals.
England playmaker Trevor Brooking earned a place in the First Division side in 1977/78 – a season that ended in the Hammers’ relegation – while Billy Bonds was also voted into the First Division Team of the Year in the FA Cup-winning 1974/75 season.
More recently, Mark Noble and James Tomkins were voted into the Championship Team of the Year in the promotion season of 2011/12, while Michael Carrick was in the Division One (now Championship) selection in 2003/04.
Prior to that, Julian Dicks (twice), Ludek Miklosko (twice), Ian Bishop, Trevor Morley and Martin Allen were all voted into the Second Division side in the 1990s.
The title-winning 1980/81 season saw West Ham players fill the Second Division side with no fewer than eight players, while Brooking, Billy Bonds and Alan Devonshire were also included the previous year.
The France international attacking midfielder has enjoyed an outstanding debut season with West Ham United, scoring nine goals and recording nine assists in 27 Barclays Premier League appearances.
Aside from inspiring the Club’s European challenge, Payet has added three more goals and assists apiece in the knockout competitions as the Hammers reached the Emirates FA Cup quarter-finals.
The No27 is joined in the Team of the Year by four players each from Tottenham Hotspur and Leicester City, Arsenal right-back Hector Bellerin and Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea.
The outstanding 29-year-old is also among six players shortlisted for the individual PFA Men’s Player of the Year award.
Payet is just the West Ham player to be voted into the top-flight Team of the Year by his fellow professionals.
England playmaker Trevor Brooking earned a place in the First Division side in 1977/78 – a season that ended in the Hammers’ relegation – while Billy Bonds was also voted into the First Division Team of the Year in the FA Cup-winning 1974/75 season.
More recently, Mark Noble and James Tomkins were voted into the Championship Team of the Year in the promotion season of 2011/12, while Michael Carrick was in the Division One (now Championship) selection in 2003/04.
Prior to that, Julian Dicks (twice), Ludek Miklosko (twice), Ian Bishop, Trevor Morley and Martin Allen were all voted into the Second Division side in the 1990s.
The title-winning 1980/81 season saw West Ham players fill the Second Division side with no fewer than eight players, while Brooking, Billy Bonds and Alan Devonshire were also included the previous year.