I understand when people say that it's too early to predict the potential winner of next season's UEFA Champions League competition but in my own opinion, I don't think that the prediction is as difficult as we make it look like because there's a team already that's near perfect and that team is the defending champions Real Madrid. Real Madrid despite the quality and depth in the squad was able to sign another world class player in Kylian Mbappe this summer and for a player of his intimidating qualities, I don't think it'll be easy to stop them from retaining the European title.
The only notable figure that left the club is no other than Toni Kroos who decided to call it a day in his professional football career. Luka Modric is still part of the squad and will remain at the club for another season so I expect him to help nurture the younger players in the club with his experience.
It is not wrong to say that but in the end we also have to realize that Madrid is not the only champion candidate for this season and actually in the last few seasons not only this season since the beginning we must be aware that who will be the subscription and the club that has the greatest probability of winning because indeed everything is always the same where Madrid, Mancehster City are always the strongest candidates in the last few seasons.
Previously there were Liverpool or Bayern, PSG and Barcelona but they do have their own problems and at this time the most stable then indeed the answer is only 2 namely Madrid and Manchester City so we cannot fully say that Madrid will return to the championship as long as Manchester City has Pep and their myriad of star players.
Even though that is the hope that Madrid will return back to back, we cannot be too optimistic even before the league starts again because the results in the Champiosn League depend on their performance on the field with good cooperation.