The 2023/24 season was an amazing one for Phil Foden at Manchester City, as it was for Cole Palmer after he left the Etihad Stadium last summer. Foden finished as the FWA Footballer of the Year and Premier League Player of the Year, after an outstanding campaign where he was front and centre of City’s surge to a fourth straight league title. Foden thrived in a central role, and really stepped up in the absence of Kevin De Bruyne. But he then continued to shine once the Belgian was back. 2023/24 was the season one academy graduate truly came of age at City. But one also came of age away from th…