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.
Tipping Manchester city, Real Madrid and Bayern munich as the possible UEFA Champions league winners isn't bad I mean over the years, these aforementioned clubs have really dominated the champions league but I see some turn around this time.
Currently the clubs are in good form and looks like teams that wouldn't be defeated except they meet each other but believe this is football as history are meant to be broken so I foresee a weaker team surprising the bigger clubs in this season champions league trophy.
It would be very interesting to see this confrontation. A confrontation between truly strong teams. But I think that this is possible, since people come from different groups and we need to get to this point and not get into trouble. Nowadays games have become so unpredictable that it is difficult to predict anything.