I don’t agree with the classification of a young player being 24 or under. To me that’s a fully fledged professional player and is not “young” anymore. I think the young player cut-off age should be 22 or 21. That will give the properly young players in this league the recognition they deserve instead of wasted nominations going to players like Coutinho.
In any case, the actual winners are fully deserving of their awards. Mahrez has scored and assisted a lot of pivotal goals in Leicester’s title assault while Alli is in a class of his own for a young player.
Congratulations to both players.