{"id":112427,"date":"2025-09-03T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112427\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T21:21:08","slug":"jesus-chiesa-tel-notable-absentees-in-champions-league-squads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112427\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus, Chiesa, Tel notable absentees in Champions League squads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/>Gabriel Jesus&#8217; last appearance for Arsenal came in January 2025.\u00a0(Photo by Steven Paston\/PA Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"148fea58-373d-2185-8962-b431f7bf7dbc\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/217289\/gabriel-jesus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Jesus<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"3e4b49b9-93a5-3b4f-961d-26a3da90d27a\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/325042\/mathys-tel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mathys Tel<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"05962706-324f-0308-d000-3d59721419fe\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/234306\/federico-chiesa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Federico Chiesa<\/a> are among the notable absentees from their respective clubs&#8217; 25-player squads for this season&#8217;s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus has been sidelined since January after undergoing knee surgery and hasn&#8217;t featured for the club this season. Meanwhile, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> have included teenage sensation <a data-player-guid=\"8ae83f90-1c56-3fc5-b7f5-7cbe62abf427\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/397263\/max-dowman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Dowman<\/a> in their squad following his eye-catching displays in the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old became the second-youngest Premier League debutant after coming off the bench in Arsenal&#8217;s win over <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"231a0077-e0f5-f148-974b-82b9ec5f304e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=357\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds United<\/a> and also featured in their loss to <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Across north London, Tottenham boss Thomas Frank has opted to leave Tel out of his Champions League squad. The forward was the first signing of the Frank era, after his loan move from <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"25b5e432-d3d2-939f-f73b-6e531a6fbd91\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern Munich<\/a> was made permanent in the summer. Spurs&#8217; other new summer arrivals <a data-player-guid=\"1d579dc6-36ff-3968-8839-bfb7e679c33d\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/332962\/xavi-simons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavi Simons<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"66f8026a-5b35-4426-fdc5-03b128d2d5e2\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/224144\/joao-palhinha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jo\u00e3o Palhinha<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"e3a3d2d6-2713-3100-ee57-98317dc42fcd\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/266599\/mohammed-kudus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammed Kudus<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"3a3d05ac-9039-3e7b-e75c-adda1a51ab12\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/252971\/randal-kolo-muani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Randal Kolo Muani<\/a> have all been included.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool boss Arne Slot had previously spoken of Chiesa being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/story\/_\/id\/46055062\/liverpool-chiesa-totally-different-last-season-slot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;totally different&#8221;<\/a> this season but has left the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"e5383473-2c2c-672e-5c37-253cfce49818\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=162\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a> international out of their Champions League squad. However, Liverpool&#8217;s teenage starlet <a data-player-guid=\"0e1a3e84-f68b-395f-98ca-3fb2682bfcc0\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/379588\/rio-ngumoha\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Ngumoha<\/a>, who scored a dramatic winner against Newcstle United, has been named in the squad.<\/p>\n<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"94fd5d7e-35b1-9d52-c9f2-4a37259bea36\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=382\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> have included four goalkeepers in their 25-man squad, including new signings <a data-player-guid=\"694fc5d8-064a-3109-a82f-0cbf9e3a252e\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/307118\/james-trafford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Trafford<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"bafc75bd-f245-c2e3-c93b-ccf9907022bf\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/217092\/gianluigi-donnarumma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gianluigi Donnarumma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c43a00b9-2826-72b3-77a0-62730abc936e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> have left <a data-player-guid=\"15fce6f9-fb0c-a2fe-0bef-103f74ab2490\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/156366\/raheem-sterling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raheem Sterling<\/a> out of their squad with new signing Federico Buonanotte also missing out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Jesus&#8217; last appearance for Arsenal came in January 2025.\u00a0(Photo by Steven Paston\/PA Images via Getty Images) Gabriel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-112427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}