Bournemouth centre-back Dean Huijsen has comfortably won the Premier League Signing of the Season honour in the 2024-25 Sports Mole Readers' Awards.
The 20-year-old took to the English top flight like a duck to water following his £16.5m arrival from Juventus last summer, registering three goals and two assists in 32 top-flight games.
Huijsen's exceptional form captured the attention of numerous Champions League-competing clubs, and the Spaniard will soon head to Real Madrid after Los Blancos triggered his £50m release clause.
Huijsen's final act before becoming a Real Madrid player is to accept the Signing of the Season prize in the 2024-25 Sports Mole Readers' Awards, having claimed a whopping 44% of the vote.
The former Roma man was the outright winner in a six-strong category, where Arsenal's midfielder/striker hybrid Mikel Merino finished in second place with 21.7% of the nominations.
Nottingham Forest centre-back Nikola Milenkovic interestingly came in below Merino at 16.4%, while Nottingham Forest's Elliot Anderson, Crystal Palace's Maxence Lacroix and Ipswich Town's Liam Delap shared the rest of the vote.
PREMIER LEAGUE SIGNING OF THE SEASON RESULTS
1. Dean Huijsen (Bournemouth) - 44%
2. Mikel Merino (Arsenal) - 21.7%
3. Nikola Milenkovic (Nottingham Forest) - 16.4%
4. Liam Delap (Ipswich Town) - 10.2%
5. Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest) - 5.4%
6. Maxence Lacroix (Crystal Palace) - 2.4%
Ben Knapton
