CHELSEA ace Nicolas Jackson addressed the arguable African Player of the Year shortlist that includes immoderate large omissions, specified arsenic Liverpool superstar Mohamed Salah.
The Confederation of African Football released the database of players who are nominated for this year's esteemed POTY grant but sparked a heated debate.
The database includes Brighton's Simon Adingra, Rennes' Amine Gouiri, Borussia Dortmund's Serhou Guirassy, Paris Saint-Germain's Achraf Hakimi, Atalanta's Ademola Lookman, Marseille's Chancel Mbemba, Al-Ain's Soufiane Rahimi, Bayer Leverkusen's Edmond Tapsoba, Al-Kholood's William Troost-Ekong and Mamelodi Sundowns' Ronwen Williams.
However, immoderate large names were near out, specified arsenic West Ham's Mohammed Kudus, Real Madrid's Brahim Diaz, Leverkusen's Victor Boniface arsenic good arsenic Jackson and Salah.
The Chelsea ace was near baffled and took to societal media to explicit his surprise.
Jackson posted connected his Instagram story: "What happened?!"
Salah, 32, stood retired for Liverpool erstwhile much past play arsenic helium won the Carabao Cup and amassed a staggering 25 goals and 14 assists successful 44 appearances crossed each competitions.
The Egypt planetary broke different record conscionable an hr into the caller play lone 2 months agone arsenic helium recorded the astir opening-day goals successful Premier League history.
Senegalese prima Jackson, 23, has been connected occurrence for Chelsea this play with 5 goals and 3 assists successful 8 Prem matches.
Ghanaian ace Kudus already counts 16 goals and 7 assists successful 55 matches for West Ham aft lone moving to eastbound London a twelvemonth ago.
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Boniface was among the brightest African stars past play arsenic helium played a cardinal relation successful Leverkusen's historical Bundesliga triumph, which saw them winning their archetypal ever rubric undefeated.
The Nigeria planetary scored 21 goals and produced 10 assists successful 34 matches for Xabi Alonso's broadside past term.
Mo Salah appears to corroborate Liverpool transportation exit unrecorded connected Sky Sports aft ripping Man Utd to shreds
And Moroccan prima Diaz helped Real triumph LaLiga arsenic good arsenic the Champions League.