{"id":609821,"date":"2026-09-08T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609821\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:28:10","slug":"hardest-decision-to-make-big-name-stars-shockingly-dropped-from-european-squads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609821\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hardest decision to make!&#8217; \u2013 Big-name stars shockingly dropped from European squads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European clubs have finalized their squad registration lists for continental competitions, leaving several high-profile stars on the sidelines. Managers across the Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League faced difficult choices driven by injuries, transfer sagas, and squad size limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Among the notable omissions is Liverpool winger Federico Chiesa, who missed out under Andoni Iraola due to heavy competition from summer signings like Daniel Munoz and Bradley Barcola.<\/p>\n<p>Wataru Endo was also excluded from Liverpool&#8217;s selection, with 21-year-old James McConnell preferred in midfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European clubs have finalized their squad registration lists for continental competitions, leaving several high-profile stars on the sidelines.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42659,1998,170687,30065,39632,85,46,19683,172,42614,4029,105,22094],"class_list":["post-609821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aston-villa","tag-barcelona","tag-bayer-leverkusen","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-como","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-juventus","tag-liverpool","tag-monaco","tag-real-madrid","tag-sports","tag-ssc-napoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}