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Super Eagles and Chelsea star Victor Moses has been surprisingly left out of the final three-man shortlist for the CAF African Player of the Year award as Egypt’s Mohamed Salah, Senegal’s Sadio Mane and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon made the final cut.

The final shortlist, selected from an initial list of 30, was unveiled on Monday at the Movenpick Hotel, Accra, Ghana.

Salah beat Moses, Mane and Aubameyang to the BBC version of the award.

Barcelona forward, Luiz Suarez says although winning the Sunday Clasico would provide the needed title boost, there are other challenges facing the club. The Uruguayan forward who has ended his goal drought netted twice at the Camp Nou in time to visit the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. In an interview with Moviestar, Suarez said "It would be a boost to win at the Bernabeu. However, there are other challengers. Valencia and Atletico Madrid are both pushing us."

Arsenal Manager, Arsene Wenger says he is confident that Mesut Ozil who has just over six months left on his current contract, would sign a new contract and remain in the club without further persuasion.  Wenger stated this in an exclusive chat with Sky Sports.  According to him
"I believe he wants to stay, he is not to be convinced [to sign a new contract.

Nigerian Football club side, MFM FC have been drawn to play Real Bamako of Mali at the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League. Defending champions of the Nigeria Professional football league, Plateau United were pitched against Cameroonian club, Eding Sport. The winner of the Plateau United versus Editing Sports clash will face African heavyweight, Etoile Sahel, in the first round, while one of MFM FC and Real Bamako will qualify to play Otoho of Algeria.

Former AC Milan and Real Madrid midfielder Ricardo Kaka have announced that he was retiring from football. Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite, (Kaká) is a Brazilian professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Kaká made his professional club debut at age 18 at São Paulo FC in Brazil in 2001. The 35-year-old wrote on Twitter: “It was much more than I could ever imagined. Thank you! I’m now ready for the next journey. In Jesus name. Amen.”

Everton star Wayne Rooney says the current Manchester City aren't the best team to have graced the Premier League, despite setting a new record of sixteen consecutive wins in the league. The Pep Guardiola's side have taken the English top flight by storm this season, and have taken an incredible 51 points out of 53 available. On Saturday, they defeated Tottenham 4-1 to go 14 points clear.