The UEFA Champions League Squads of English Teams

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The Champions League is back; well it will soon be back. From the 12th of September 2017, Europe’s finest clubs will once again go toe to toe in the ultimate competition for one of the football's biggest prizes, the UEFA Champions League.

This would be the 62nd consecutive season of the competition, in those many years English teams have only won the competition 12 times which is not impressive when you consider that; that is the same number of times Real Madrid has also won it.

In the past couple of seasons, English teams have experienced a gradual slide in fortune in the Champions league. Only one English team; Chelsea FC has won the competition in the last 8 years. In fact, the slide has been so bad that only one English team (Manchester City) has gone beyond the quarter finals in the past 3 seasons.

This season, however, promises to be much better for English teams than recent seasons as the topsides all have strengthened; acquiring some of the best coaching and playing staff. Also for once, the league will be having 5 teams competing instead of 4. This is due to Manchester United snagging up the UEFA Europa league title last season.

Without much further Ado, let’s get right into the squads that have been registered.

Chelsea FC Champions League Squad

There were few surprises in the squad of the English champions with Diego Costa and Baba Rahman the most visible absentees. The squad in full is as follows

Goalkeepers:
Willy Caballero, Thibaut Courtois, Eduardo

Defenders:
Antonio Rudiger, Marcos Alonso, Davide Zappacosta, Gary Cahill, Andreas Christensen, Cesar Azpilicueta, David Luiz, Jake Clarke-Salter

Midfielders:
Cesc Fabregas, Danny Drinkwater, N’Golo Kante, Eden Hazard, Pedro, Tiemoue Bakayoko, Victor Moses, Kenedy, Charly Mosunda, Willian, Kyle Scott

Forwards:
Alvaro Morata, Michy Batshuayi

Manchester United Champions League Squad

No surprises here, except maybe the exclusion of goal keeping sensation Joel Castro Pereira

Goalkeepers:
David de Gea, Sergio Romero

Defenders:
Victor Lindelof, Eric Bailly, Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo, Chris Smalling, Daley Blind, Luke Shaw, Antonio Valencia, Matteo Darmian

Midfielders:
Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, Jesse Lingard, Michael Carrick, Ashley Young, Ander Herrera, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Marouane Fellaini, Nemanja Matic

Forwards:
Romelu Lukaku, Zlatan Ibrahimovich, Anthony Martial, James Wilson

Manchester City Champions League Squad

Goalkeepers:
Claudio Bravo, Ederson, Arijanet Muric

Defenders:
Kyle Walker, Danilo, John Stones, Eliaquim Mangala, Benjamin Mendy, Nicolas Otamendi, Vincent Kompany

Midfielders: Raheem Sterling, İlkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne, Fabian Delph, Leroy Sane, Bernardo Silva, David Silva, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure

Forwards: Sergio Aguero, Gabriel Jesus

Liverpool FC Champions League Squad

Goalkeepers:
Loris Karius, Simon Mignolet, Danny Ward

Defenders:
Dejan Lovren, Joe Gomez, Ragnar Klavan, Alberto Moreno, Andy Robertson, Joel Matip, Jon Flanagan, Conor Masterson, Trent Alexander-Arnold*

Midfielders:
Georginio Wijnaldum, James Milner, Philippe Coutinho, Jordan Henderson, Marko Grujic, Adam Lallana, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Emre Can, Cameron Brannagan, Ovie Ejaria, Sheyi Ojo*

Forwards:
Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah, Daniel Sturridge, Sadio Mane, Dominic Solanke, Ryan Kent, Rhian Brewster, Ben Woodburn*, Harry Wilson