Hakimi needed just last trophy to push him ahead of the CAF award contenders, if PSG had won the Club World Cup, definitely it won't be a competition anymore. Despite, considering PSG achievement and Hakimi as a co/major contributor in his team, Hakimi might be given a head chance of winning the award, Osimhen did very well but i don't think everyone agrees Galatasaray league to be competitive allowing him score such number of goals, unlike Premier League and French League. Regardless, all three are still up there and we can't detect finally who wins.
Hakimi doesn't need to win the Club World Cup for him to beat Victor Osimhen and Mohamed Salah in the race for the African Player of the Year award because the treble Hakimi won with PSG this season, which includes the UEFA Champions League trophy, is enough for Hakimi to edge Victor Osimhen and Mohamed Salah to win the African Player of the Year award. Even though I am a Nigerian, if I am allowed to vote for the next African Player of the Year award, I will vote for Hakimi because he deserves to win it.
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This shouldn't be something we need to debate on. As it stands now, no other player deserves the African best player of the year award than Hakimi. It is crystal clear he won it this year. So any other observation does not matter at this point, including the discussion of him not winning the Club World Cup.
The Club World Cup tournament was just introduced and it happens in every 4 years, while the CAF best player award is a yearly thing. You cant use a 4 year cycle competition to judge a player performance for one year. We should think about a lot of thing before saying them.