Choosing the best and brightest from a quite extraordinary season of domestic European football is no small task.In England, Arsenal won the Premier League for the first time in over two decades and also booked themselves a Champions League final showdown with Paris Saint-Germain, while Bayern Munich set fresh records in the Bundesliga, Barcelona humbled their great rivals Real Madrid to win La Liga and Inter proved a cut above the rest in Serie A.Not scared of the task at hand, The Athletic’s team of experts have been voting in our annual end-of-season awards and these are our end-of-season award winners.We have done the same for women’s football — find out about them here.Now, without any further ado, allow us to present are the players and managers we are recognising for their achievements this season in men’s football.Premier League Player of the Season: Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United)Bruno Fernandes will not finish this season as a title-winner. He’ll not even be a runner-up. But in a Premier League season defined by set-piece choreography, at a point in the game’s history when systems smother individual brilliance, his unique, difference-making genius has set him apart from his peers.Creatively, he has operated in a different stratosphere. Fernandes has fashioned 132 chances this season, almost twice the number of anyone else. Plenty of those were from set pieces, granted, but his 95 from open play is still streets ahead of the next most.That chance-creation underpinned Fernandes’ league-leading 20 assists, equalling the Premier League record in a single campaign set by Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne. As Henry himself said in March, Fernandes does not play football. “He thinks football”.Many now complain that the Premier League is suffering from a poverty of imagination. Maybe that’s because it’s all concentrated in one player: Fernandes, this season’s best.Mark CritchleyPremier League Young Player of the Season: Nico O’Reilly (Manchester City)There were question marks about O’Reilly’s place in the City squad going into this season after Rayan Ait-Nouri was signed during the summer. The 21-year-old had done very well during the final weeks of last season but he only really broke into the team late in the day, and a new arrival in his position suggested that opportunities might be hard to come by this time.He did not start the first three league games of the season but quickly made himself a feature of the first team, to the extent that, by now, he is absolutely considered their first-choice left-back. That is quite some feat considering he came through the academy as an attacking midfielder.Those forward-thinking talents are obvious when he joins City’s attacks, and are most obviously demonstrated by those headers he gets when arriving into the six-yard box at just the right time, as he did twice in the Carabao Cup final against Arsenal.Pep Guardiola has used him in the midfield, too, and he looked right at home earlier in the year playing alongside Bernardo Silva and Rodri. In truth, he looks right at home wherever he plays in this refreshed, youthful City team, but he has had to earn his spot and he has done so brilliantly.This award was voted for by The Athletic’s subscribers.Sam LeePremier League Manager of the Season: Regis Le Bris (Sunderland)Newly-promoted teams are not supposed to reach the heights that Sunderland have hit this season. They head into the final day with 51 points on the board and holding a very real chance of securing either seventh or eighth position, and a place in Europe next year.Regis Le Bris has been the man to make it all possible: a diligent, tactically-astute figurehead who has lost the same number of Premier League games (12) as Liverpool’s Arne Slot this season.Others have won plenty more but Le Bris has made Sunderland a disciplined, uncompromising unit during his own Premier League debut. Fulham, of all teams, have ended up as the only opponent Sunderland have failed to take at least a point from.And all this after clambering up through the Championship play-offs last season. The understated Le Bris has transformed Sunderland’s outlook inside his two years at the Stadium of Light.Phil BuckinghamPremier League Team of the SeasonDavid Raya won the Golden Glove and is rightly the goalkeeper of the season. You only need to watch his highlights of important saves for Arsenal this term to realise he is not just the best in the league but perhaps the world.Despite recent injury struggles, Jurrien Timber has been chosen at right-back for his impactful performances in a memorable Arsenal campaign. He is in familiar company with Gabriel, the only player to make our team of the season last year and this, and William Saliba. They have again formed a formidable centre-back partnership that this year, was unmatched.O’Reilly has been around for longer than you think but this season, the 21-year-old came of age for Manchester City, driving them back on track whenever they veered off course.Meanwhile, Declan Rice’s engine is something else. He is a player found all over the pitch, either putting out fires or starting them. Rayan Cherki, a man of mystical touches, also makes it in. This was his first season in the Premier League and he brought something completely new to it.Manchester United’s Fernandes has had a record season with his 20 assists. He is the first name on this team sheet for obvious reasons.Igor Thiago has had an incredible season for Brentford, scoring 22 times in the Premier League so far and was second on the top scorer list behind Erling Haaland, who naturally makes it in at a canter. for his 27 goals and eight assists.And finally, to the FA Cup match-winner Antoine Semenyo. Formerly of Bournemouth, he did not stutter when moving to Manchester but adjusted straight away and added a new dimension to Guardiola’s team, which is not always an easy task.Caomihe O’NeillPremier League Goal of the Season: Harry Wilson (Fulham) vs Crystal PalaceLamine Yamal, Luka Modric, Ricardo Quaresma — and this season, the list of trivela legends gained a new, unlikely name.But Harry Wilson’s goal against Crystal Palace in December was more than just a glorious swing with the outside of his left boot. The build-up with Alex Iwobi and Raul Jimenez is worth countless replays itself, a display of mesmeric one-touch passing.It is a beautiful team move but make no mistake, this is Wilson’s goal: his flick to Jimenez, his spin away, his curling finish. Palace centre-back Maxence Lacroix doesn’t know which way to turn, Iwobi ends up with his hands on his head, Sander Berge simply stands and applauds. They weren’t the only ones.