The strongest candidate to win the trophy along with real madrid and bayern munich. I don't really see any other strong candidates besides these clubs. City, Madrid, and Bayern are the favorites to win the trophy this season, proving that this is not a farmer league. My reason is caused by there have been major improvements that happened in the club. It will be so good to see city face a strong club in the next stage. Manchester city may still try to continue the result from the previous season as city was perfectly winning the trophy. Pep is trying so hard to keep city in the same track this time. There are no lots of change happened in the club. City is still 90% with the same players like the previous seasons.
These three teams are the only teams that have the highest probability of winning the trophy this season and this can be seen by their respective performance in the league so far. If any of these teams meet now, the number of team ti be left among them to win the trophy will reduce, and we will finally get the last person to win the trophy. I wish they should meet at the semifinals, that is where the intensity of the game will lie most and that will give room for more seriousness among the clubs. I don’t know for now, but these three teams are very good teams to win the champions league title for now until a smaller team we don’t expect will remove them from the competition and pave way for themselves as replacements for them. This is no farmer’s league and the best and most strategical team wins in the end.