Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne eyes personal double by claiming PFA Player of the Year to match Bundesliga equivalent: 'It is a special thing'
- Kevin De Bruyne is 'not busy' thinking about winning the PFA Player of the YearÂ
- But the Belgian cannot deny collecting the individual award would a 'special'
- He claimed the Footballer of the Year award in Germany with Wolfsburg in 2015
- Fellow ex-Chelsea player Mohamed Salah is his main rival for the English award
Kevin De Bruyne believes he can help Manchester City win a treble this season, but he is also eyeing a rare personal double.
The Belgium midfielder faces the Chelsea club that discarded him as a flop three years ago, now rated the best player in the Premier League.
And if, as expected, he helps City take another step towards securing the title, he will be within an open goal of being voted the Player and Footballer of the Year.
Kevin De Bruyne won the Footballer of the Year award in Germany with Wolfsburg in 2015
Those honours will sit nicely alongside his Footballer of the Year award he won in Germany in 2015, following his transfer to Wolfsburg from Stamford Bridge.
The modest 25-year-old insisted: 'I am not busy [thinking about it] at the moment but if you receive it, it is a very nice thing.
'I've got it in Germany, it is a special thing, not a lot of players receive something like that. If you get it in the end, but first is the title and then maybe something like that.
'Obviously it is nice that it is voted by other players, but even supporters or journalists or panellists I don't know. If they speak about you positively it is always nice.'
Now the midfielder is hoping to claim the equivalent award in the Premier League this season
Rivalling De Bruyne for the individual awards is Liverpool's Mo Salah, another player shipped out of Chelsea without being given a chance to shine.'
Asked about his similar path to Salah, he responded: 'It's football. You never know what is going to happen.
'If we had stayed there, would it be the same? Probably not. You don't know. I don't think they will be angry about what happened.
'They won twice the title and we moved on and did our thing. Other teams also let it go.'
De Bruyne was a key player in City's League Cup triumph at Wembley last weekend and influential in Thursday might's next 3-0 win over Arsenal that left them within five or six points of securing the title.
His main rival is likely to be Mohamed Salah, who, like De Bruyne, was sold by Chelsea
A win over Chelsea could pretty much put one hand firmly on the trophy.
With a place in the last eight of the Champions League also secured following a 4-0 first leg win over Basel, he will could be off to the World Cup in Russia laden down with prizes.
He added: 'We are busy with trying to win the league and if it is possible do well in the Champions League and then the World Cup comes.
'I am not busy with what happens then. I think that is the same for the other people and what happens in the World Cup happens, it is still so long to go.'
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