Man City name 21-man squad for Champions League group stages

Manchester City named a 21-man squad for the first stage of the Champions League when the transfer window shut last week.

Pep Guardiola and his players are looking to make club history by winning the competition for the first time, and have gone close in recent years with a 2021 final following up by an agonising semi-final defeat to Real Madrid back in May when they led by two goals going into the 180th minute of the tie.

City's squad has undergone significant change over the summer, with five significant first-team exits and six new faces coming into replace them. All of those new signings — Erling Haaland, Kalvin Phillips, Stefan Ortega, Sergio Gomez and Manuel Akanji — have been named in the Champions League squad and January buy Julian Alvarez is also there.

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There are no glaring omissions from the squad, given the fact that Guardiola prefers to work with a small group of players — and Cole Palmer's absence from it is down to the fact that he qualifies as a List B player and so is eligible for all games still. Young defenders Rico Lewis and Josh Wilson-Esbrand are in the same category.

Aymeric Laporte is also included despite the fact he will miss the first few games. The Spanish defender is expected to be out for at least a month still after knee surgery in summer, meaning he will miss Sevilla away, Dortmund and Copenhagen at home and possible more fixtures.

John Stones and Kyle Walker have also not travelled for the first game at Sevilla.

List A squad: Ederson, Ortega, Carson, Walker, Dias, Stones, Ake, Cancelo, Akanji, Laporte, Gomez, Phillips, Rodri, Gundogan, Bernardo, Grealish, De Bruyne, Mahrez, Foden, Haaland,