UEFA Champions League squad changes confirmed
Thursday, February 4, 2016
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Arda Turan, Stephan El Shaarawy, Alexandre Pato and Kelechi Iheanacho are in; Radamel Falcao and Samir Nasri are out. Get a rundown of all the squad changes for the knockouts.
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All the UEFA Champions League round of 16 clubs were permitted to register a maximum of three new eligible A list players by midnight CET on Tuesday 2 February. With that deadline now passed, here are the changes (click on the clubs to view their full squad list).
The full regulations around player registration can be found here (see Article 44).
Headlines
- Aleix Vidal and Arda Turan added to Barcelona squad
- Radamel Falcao makes way at Chelsea as Matt Miazga and Alexandre Pato come in
- In-form Kelechi Iheanacho replaces injured Samir Nasri for Manchester City
- Paris Saint-Germain are the only team to make no changes
- Roma add Stephan El Shaarawy, Ervin Zukanović and Diego Perotti
Arsenal
In: Mohamed Elneny (Basel)
Out: Glen Kamara (Southend, loan), Mathieu Debuchy (Bordeaux, loan)
Atlético Madrid
In: Augusto Fernández (Celta Vigo), Matías Kranevitter (River Plate, back from loan)
Out: Guilherme Siqueira (Valencia, loan)
Barcelona
In: Adrian Ortola, Aleix Vidal (Sevilla), Arda Turan (Atlético Madrid)
Out: David Babunski, Juan Cámara, Alejandro Grimaldo (Benfica), Gerard Gumbau, José Aurelio Suárez
Bayern München
In: Marco Friedl*, Miloš Pantović*, Steeven Ribéry*, Andreas Rossl, Lucas Scholl*, Serdar Tasci (Spartak Moskva, loan)
Out: Jan Kirchhoff (Sunderland), Gianluca Gaudino (St Gallen, loan), Ivan Lucic, Felix Pohl
Benfica
In: Alejandro Grimaldo (Barcelona B), Luka Jović (Crvena zvezda), Eduardo Salvio
Out: Bilal Ould-Chikh, Bryan Cristante (Palermo, loan), Victor Andrade (Guimarães, loan)
Chelsea
In: Matt Miazga (New York Red Bulls), Alexandre Pato (Corinthians, loan)
Out: Mitchell Beeney, Radamel Falcao, Ramires (Jiangsu Suning)
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Dynamo Kyiv
In: Oleksandr Yakovenko (Fiorentina), Nikita Korzun (Dinamo Minsk), Artur Rudko
Out: Artem Kravets (Stuttgart, loan), Younes Belhanda (Schalke, loan), Niko Kranjčar
Gent
In: Gustav Wikheim (Strømsgodset), Lucas Deaux (Nantes), Rami Gershon
Out: Benito Raman (Sint-Truiden, loan), Erik Johansson (København), Nicklas Pedersen, Marko Poletanović, Uroš Vitas
Juventus
In: Kwadwo Asamoah
Out: Mario Lemina, Mattia Vitale
Manchester City
In: Kelechi Iheanacho
Out: Samir Nasri
Paris Saint-Germain
In: none
Out: none
PSV Eindhoven
In: Aleksandar Boljević*, Luiz Humberto Da Silva (Sporting Cristal), Marco van Ginkel (Chelsea, loan)
Out: Moussa Sanoh, Rai Vloet
Real Madrid
In: Mariano Díaz Mejía, José Carlos Lazo*, Philipp Lienhart, Alvaro Tejero Sacristán*
Out: Abner, Denis Cheryshev (Valencia, loan)
Roma
In: Stephan El Shaarawy (Milan, loan), Ervin Zukanović (Sampdoria, loan), Diego Perotti (Genoa, loan)
Out: Juan Iturbe (Bournemouth, loan), Gervinho (Hebei China Fortune)
Wolfsburg
In: Ismail Azzaoui, Jannes Horn*, Bruno Henrique (Goias), Leandro Putaro*, Robin Ziegele*
Out: Timm Klose (Norwich City), Francisco Rodríguez (Arminia Bielefeld, loan)
Zenit
In: Yuri Zhirkov (Dinamo Moskva), Aleksandr Kokorin (Dinamo Moskva), Maurício (Terek Grozny)
Out: none
*Player list B