The Premier League's Team of the Season Nominees are in... and Newcastle United have been done Hella Dirty!

As the 2024-2025 Premier League season reaches the climax, it's time for fans across the globe to vote on their most worthy entrants for the Team of the Season.

It's been a very difficult season to judge; Liverpool have practically sleepwalked to the title without too many memorable team performances; while fellow Super League 6 cronies Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are on the verge of their worst Premier League campaigns ever.

In between, there has been an interchangeable pack of European hopefuls - from perennial runners-up Arsenal to plucky underdogs Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth and Fulham - all with plenty of individual standout player campaigns to cheer for.

And then there's Newcastle United...

It's been a breathless, hair-pulling, nerve-jangling, fury-inciting, euphoria-filled season for the Toon Army; as we've grappled with form (or lack of it) at many points of the campaign. Essentially, I've packaged it into five sections.

1. We were winning games despite playing awful football

2. We stopped winning games and couldn't find a way to fit Sandro Tonali into the side

3. We can't stop winning! This is unbelievable!

4. We have a cup final on the horizon... why are we getting battered at home by Bournemouth and Fulham?

5. We won the cup! Let's finish strongly now!

As you can see... consistently inconsistent. And that's perhaps why Newcastle have a shockingly low number of representatives in the list of Team of the Season nominees...

First of all... who did get in?

It will come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that global superstar (and the coveted apple of many Super League Six clubs' eye) Alexander Isak is Newcastle's first nominee in the list. 20 goals and six assists in 28 games (as of Tuesday 15th of April) make him an obvious contender, while he also picked up the Premier League Player of the Month award for December. Only Mo Salah and Erling Haaland are ahead of him in the scoring charts, and the sheer variety of goals and link-up play have made his season even more eye-catching than the Norwegian goal machine's. I'd be very surprised if he didn't take the spot as the team's focal point in attack, with Salah supporting him on the right.

Speaking of support from the right, Jacob Murphy must have made the cut right? Seven goals and ten assists in the league make him one of the league's best wide men in terms of output alongside Salah and Bryan Mbeumo. We never expected him to pip Sarah to the RW slot, but poor Jacob doesn't even feature. The omission is even more outrageous when you see the likes of Son Heung-Min (with the exact same output) making the cut. Clear Super League 6 favouritism going on there.

You'd also be expecting to see Lewis Hall and Tino Livramento at full-back, but they've been pipped by the likes of Milos Kerkez and Antonee Robinson, as well as Ola Aina. Call me bias, but Aina's performances have been rather too Jekyll and Hyde for my liking; while Robinson and Kerkez's ability to remain injury-free has perhaps boosted their inclusion over poor Lewis Hall.

However, despite Newcastle's midfield often being referred to as the best in the league; only Bruno Guimaraes has made the cut, with his exceptional numbers across key passes, fouls won, and successful dribbles standing out, as well as his four goals and six assists. Tonali's exclusion seems particularly harsh; he's been instrumental in turning our season around, especially when the likes of Moises Caicedo, Youri Tielemens and Alex Iwobi have made the cut.

Despite currently sitting 4th with a game in hand, FIVE teams have more entrants in the list than Newcastle's measly TWO.

The table below reflects the amount of players each Premier League side has in the nominees list.

Greater than the sum of our parts? Why have Newcastle players been overlooked?

While it's been fair to say that Alexander Isak has made the headlines for Newcastle, we're very far from a 'one-man army' especially when you see quite how reliant some teams are on their main man *cough, ahem, Liverpool and Salah...

One argument could be made that certain players have shouldered the mantel of 'game-changer' at different times of the season...

Early on, we were indebted to Harvey Barnes' moments of brilliance; with key goal contributions in games against Spurs, Wolves and Bournemouth. Eventually, the emergence of Lewis Hall, Sandro Tonali, Jacob Murphy and Alexander Isak came to the fore, while Anthony Gordon also went on a great G/A streak in December.

Into 2025, and Tino Livramento has really stepped up at left-back, while Kieran Trippier's assured displays at right-back have been a welcome boost in defence. And in the absence of Gordon, Barnes has once again stepped up as a key difference-maker.

All these players have had good months and bad ones, (Isak had a very slow start to the season by his standards, and has actually only found the back of the net in four of his last nine Premier League games since a brace against Wolves on the 15th of January) so perhaps it isn't as surprising as first thought when you take into account that the accolade is based on the season as a whole.

On the flip side, this analysis has shown just how many key members of this squad there are, and when one or two key men are floundering, someone else is ready to take their chance and step up.

As the cliche goes... it's a team game, and if Newcastle can secure a Champions League place, it means a lot more to the players, the fans and the club than any individual acknowledgments.

There's still so much to play for, so Howay the Lads!