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Manchester United have submitted a 25-player squad for the 2023/24 Champions League group stage, including new signings Rasmus Hojlund and Sofyan Amrabat. Every club com Pet ing in the group stage must have a minimum of eight "locally trained" players in their squad , either trained by the club or another within that country. United have nine. In keeping with the UEFA regulations, there are five players who are considered "club trained" – that includes Luke Shaw because he joined United aged 18 – and four others who came through the ranks at other English teams. There are 16 other players. There is one notable omission from the list and that is teenage starlet Alejandro Garnacho, but it doesn't mean he won't be eligible to play in the Champions League this season. The 18-year-old will be included on the B list, yet to be confirmed, which is a supplementary list of players born since the start of 2002 and who don't count towards the main limit of 25....

The 2022/23 Champions League has come to a close. Heading into the final between Manchester City and Inter, it was already clear who would be crowned the top scorer of the 2022/23 Champions League. It is the striker who has shocked absolutely everyone with his output in all competitions this season; Manchester City's Erling Haaland. He has made it look extremely easy, beating the likes of Karim Benzema, Mohamed Salah, Robert Lewandowski, Vinicius Junior and Kylian Mbappe to the award. Here are the top ten scorer s in the 2022/23 Champions League tournament. Final 2022/23 Champions League top scorer standings 10. Rafa Silva (Benfica) Rafa Silva was a key part of Benfica's impressive campaign / Giuseppe Cottini/GettyImages Appearances:  10 Goals:  5 Rafa Silva has been something of a late bloomer. He is one of Europe's best under-the-radar attacking players at 30 and was very impressive for Benfica in 2022/23, grabbing five goals and two assists. He scored a brace against J...

Real Madrid defender Antonio Rudiger has claimed that Manchester City 'were not dangerous ' in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday. A first-half beauty from Vinicius Junior was cancelled out by a strike of similar calibre from Kevin De Bruyne after the interval, though replays suggest this equaliser should not have stood as the ball went off the pitch during the previous phase of play. Man City had the most of the opening stages before Vinicius broke the deadlock, while their own wonder-goal came against the run of play in a testing second half for Pep Guardiola's men. Rudiger had been tasked with man-marking Erling Haaland and for much of the evening kept the Norwegian striker quiet with his trademark wind-up tactics. Read the latest Champions League news here feed Speaking to beIN Sports post-match, Rudiger believed not only that Real Madrid did enough to win the Game , but they excelled in nullifying Man City's main threats. "They go...