African player of the year nominations cut from 30 to 11, Newcastle star misses out.

Former Sunderland star Asamoah Gyan ”I congratulate Christian Atsu and Thomas Partey because they have really worked hard.”

5 Premier League stars from Newcastle, Liverpool, Man Utd, and Chelsea, nominated for African player of the year.

Demba was the only one of our three to then make it down to the shortened ten man list and now he has made it to the even more shortened list of five.

Demba Ba’s goalscoring exploits have been noticed further afield but thankfully on this occasion it isn’t another rubbish transfer speculation/clause story.

The African Confederation of Football (CAF) have announced their preliminary list for the continent’s best football player of 2012 and Tiote, Ba and Cissa all make that list.