Some of this lot have already probably accepted it just isn’t going to happen. The European ship has sailed for four Manchester City players.
The following lot have never won and will never win the Champions League. Players must have made an appearance in this season’s competition to qualify, which is the only thing that spares Harry Kane.
GOALKEEPER: Jan Oblak
Over the course of eight Champions League seasons, Jan Oblak has managed to exit the competition at every possible stage. He and Atletico Madrid tumbled out of the groups in 2017/18, have been knocked out in the last 16 by Juventus (2019) and Chelsea (2021), stumbled in the quarter-finals to Real Madrid (2015), Leipzig (2020) and Manchester City (2022) and fell at both the semi and final hurdles to Real again in 2017 and 2016 respectively. The keeper has league titles and domestic cups in Portugal and Spain, as well as a Europa League and Super Cup to show for his efforts over more than half a decade as one of the continent’s best shot-stoppers. Even with his powers on the wane, 31 clean sheets in 69 European Cup games is an enviable record that never seems likely to be adorned with a winner’s medal.
RIGHT-BACK: Kyle Walker
It was under Harry Redknapp and against Hearts that Kyle Walker made his debut in European competition. The tactical guidance is a little more specific and the stage far grander, but over a decade later, both Mauricio Pochettino and Pep Guardiola have proven incapable of helping the right-back fulfil his ultimate potential. “I’ll get killed for saying this but I’d still probably say the Premier League,” Walker replied when asked whether he’d rather another title or a first Champions League in April. The rogue option c) of neither remains a possibility but at 31 and ensconced firmly in the plans of a manager and club cursed by Yaya Toure’s agent, that ship is sailing into the distance.
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