If this Caf award is not meant for Hakimi even if they had won the Club world cup nothing would have changed it because they would use another criteria to access them, meanwhile i think this season is a bit tougher in prediction because the last one was more certain.
Trophies and individual contributions will be used to access who deserves the CAF award, if the extent at which they eneded in the Club World Cup pulls him ahead of others in the ranking. Hakimi is not a striker or forwarder as Salah and Osimhen, if he has to be included in the race for CAF award, other achievements will be focused on, like titles and individual key moments for the club. I know we are Nigerians and it will be difficult to turn on our own, Osimhen did well but Hakimi was awesome and i think he deserves it.
Hakimi has a stand out performance and he should deserve the CAF player of the year award I don't know the criteria that will be used in voting I think that only goals should not be used as a criteria but individual performance and contributions to goal
It will be wrong to use just goal criteria when a defender is in the midst of two forwards.