🚨 PFA name six contenders for Women's Players' Player of the Year award
The Professional Footballers' Association have revealed the six candidates up for this season's Players' Player of the Year award in the Women's Super League.
Arsenal duo Mariona Caldentey and Alessia Russo are named alongside Chelsea stalwart Erin Cuthbert.
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Manchester City also have two representatives with Yui Hasegawa and Mary Fowler in the half dozen.
That is rounded off by Manchester United goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce.
The winner will be named at the PFA Awards' dinner in Manchester at the end of August.
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