Chelsea versatile midfielder, N'Golo Kante has won the Professional Footballers Association, PFA, Player, of the Year award.
Kante topped a short list that included Eden Hazard, Harry Kane, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Alexis Sanchez, and Romelu Lukaku, but was he deserving of his award?
"It means the world to me", Kante told chelseafc.com, with the Blues sat in pole position to clinch the league title with six games remaining.
At the awards ceremony in central London, Manchester City's Lucy Bronze was named the women's player of the year, and Birmingham's Jess Carter was named the women's young player of the year.
The 21-year-old, who joined the London club from MK Dons in 2015, has scored 20 goals in all competitions from midfield this season and is a full England global.
After Chelsea's 4-2 FA Cup semi-final win against Tottenham, Hazard had jokingly said he would not disappointed if he didn't win.
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"We had to bounce back after our defeat in Manchester and we played a very good game against Tottenham, it was my first time playing at Wembley". We will see for the future, we are confident in him and, for me, he can look to getting in the selection with Spain, for example.
Kante said: "To be chosen by the players to be player of the year means a lot to me".
Despite flopping at Stamford Bridge, Romeu, 25, has been one of Southampton's stand-out performers this season, earning admiring glances from another of his former employers Barcelona.
"Ngolo deserves it. Not only for this season but for his two seasons together in the Premier League". On a side note, more than 40,000 BBC readers selected their best Premier League XI, and the most common pick was Dele Alli. If Chelsea goes on to win the title this year, Kante will have been a key factor in their dominance.
"It's been a phenomenal journey: lots of highs, lots of lows, but I've really enjoyed every moment of it, and I feel very privileged to be here tonight to pick this up".
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