I agree that it’s far too early to start talking about favourites to win the CL.
It’s so hard to win and that’s why you rarely ever see a team defend the title. Real Madrid are the only team to do that this century.
The usual suspects will be there but too early to single out definite favourites now.
Every start of the season I usually see football fans usually predicting favourite even before match day one and predictions are usually based on the early season form of this clubs or even the kind of players they have on their team. Most often this predictions do not work out because either most of this teams dip in form or other contenders get better as the season progresses and this makes it difficult to win against them, we have seen clubs started the season well but right after the early start they fail to put up same performances again.
Any club that is in form can win the Champions League, don't feel that's only Chelsea that can win it. There are more elite clubs in the Champions League than Chelsea despite that Chelsea performance shows that they're in form. Nobody knows which club can make it to the final at this stage.
I could remember last season when Liverpool was regarded as the favourite then because of how they were dominating the premier league then and also the comprehensive league they topped the table only to be beaten by PSG in the knockout stage, PSG on the other hand were even last to get qualification then and ended up been eventual winners