With the UEFA Champions League about to enter its elimination phase next week after the final round of the phase game of the league last week, the best clubs in Europe had to make great decisions about who would register once The January transfer window will be closed. Now that the winter business is out of the way, those decisions have communicated to the governing body of European football and now we know how those final squads are.
As a reminder, the teams could make up to three changes in what is known as their list of squads ‘A’, which is their main senior group of players. Some talented young people can be described separately through the ‘B’ list so that they are eligible for the UEFA Youth League, as well as the UCL service, and the lists are allowed to be as large as 25 players. Two of those 25 players, at least, must be porters with eight other trained locally, although a youth goalkeeper can help mark both boxes. List B players must be born on June 1, 2003 or can only qualify if they can demonstrate that they passed an uninterrupted two -year spell in the club in youth terms.
So what big names have been lost?
Vitor Reis (Manchester City)
Pep Guardiola has kept Rodri on his UCL list despite his injury, so it was simply a matter of what new signings would make the cut for citizens. Omar Marmous, Nico González and Abdukodir Khusanov have been included, while Vitor Reis is the unfortunate that is lost before the playoff shock next week against Real Madrid. The Brazilian was a January arrival of $ 36.2 million, but the rules dictate that someone had to get lost.
Donyell Malen (Aston Villa)
With Marcus Rashford, Axel Disasi and Marco Asensio also join in the winter business period, Unai Emery had an equally difficult call to make his Premier League team, which are directly in the 16th round. Jhon Duran, Emi Buendia And Diego Carlos left in January, but Rashford, Disasi and Asensio replace Duran’s key elements while increasing a defense affected by injuries and adds great European experience and a new potential wide man to put people like Leon Bailey under pressure for pressure carry out.
Warren Bondo and Riccardo Sottil (Milan)
The Rossoneri were busy this January and were only allowed to add three players, which meant that two newcomers were always going to lose this edition. The two in question are Warren Bondo and Riccardo Sottil with Kyle Walker, Santiago Giménez and Joao Felix, all important additions to Sergio Concicao team before their first game next week against Feyenoord in the playoffs.
Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta)
Unfortunately for international Italy, the injury made this a fairly direct decision for Gian Piero Gasperini before his clash with Club Brugge. The signings of January Daniel Maldini and Stefan Posch are included together with Ibrahim Sulemana, which disappeared in the league phase list. Nicolo Zaniolo and Ben Godfrey are also with Scalvini because both transferred clubs this winter.
Alberto Costa (Juventus)
Thiago Motta has made a handful of changes in his elderly team for the knockout phase before his meetings with PSV Eindhoven. Renato Veiga, Lloyd Kelly and Randal Kolo Muani are all while Danilo, Arthur Melo and Nicolo Fagioli have abandoned. Motta chose to ignore the new signing of Alberto Costa after his arrival by Vitoria Guimaraes.
Tajón Buchanan (Inter)
The Nerazzurri made a lonely change in its UCL squad with Tajon Buchanan going out to Villarreal in Spain and being replaced by the winter addition Nicola Zalewski. The 25 -year -old Canada is borrowed in LaLiga and could return to series A with Inter, but will not be able to play this season anymore.
