Update on Vitor Reis’ Manchester City future after UEFA Champions League squad list snub | OneFootball

Manchester City’s long-term and immediate plans for Vitor Reis remain unchanged despite the player’s exclusion from the club’s UEFA Champions League squad list.

The teenager is yet to have made his senior debut for the Premier League champions having arrived at the club from Palmeiras midway through the January market, becoming the second first-team arrival at the Etihad Stadium last month.

The highly-rated and versatile central defender followed Abdukodir Khusanov through the door at Manchester City in a rearguard recruitment drive, and was followed by Omar Marmoush in attack and Nico Gonzalez in midfield.

While there is an expectation that Reis will be handed an opportunity to assist in Manchester City’s aims for the rest of the season, starting perhaps with the FA Cup fourth round tie against Leyton Orient this weekend, the player will not make his European bow just yet.

That comes after the player was excluded from Manchester City’s updated List A and List B squads for the knockout stages of the competition submitted to UEFA on Thursday, with the club limited to adding just three of their four new signings.

However, according to the information of Fabrizio Romano, Manchester City’s decision to leave Vitor Reis out of their updated UEFA Champions League squad list for the knockout stages of the competition does not change their ‘long-term plan’ for the defender.

It is explained that the 19-year-old needs time to adapt to European football after his £29.6 million move from Palmeiras during the January transfer window, while those included in City’s European roster have already had the chance to play in Europe for a prolonged period.

Reis is also joined by Claudio Echeverri in being left out of Manchester City’s UEFA Champions League squad list, while the Argentina youth international remains on duty with his nation at the South American Under-20 Championships this month.

Rodri was added into the squad list however, despite the Spaniard remaining several months away from any sort of return to training, while the player himself holds optimism over a return to action before the end of the competitive season for club and country.

Manchester City’s UEFA Champions League, List A

Goalkeepers: Ederson, Stefan Ortega Moreno, Scott Carson

Defenders: Manuel Akanji, Nathan Ake, Ruben Dias, John Stones, Abdukodir Khusanov, Josko Gvardiol

Midfielders: Nico Gonzalez, Ilkay Gundogan, Jack Grealish, Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Rodri, Mateo Kovacic, Matheus Nunes, James McAtee,  Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku, Savinho

Forwards: Erling Haaland, Omar Marmoush

Manchester City’s UEFA Champions League, List B

Oscar Bobb, Max Alleyne, Rico Lewis,  Nico O’Reilly