Napoli boss, Carlo Ancelotti, anticipates that Barcelona should battle for a first Champions League title since 2015, after their signings this summer.
The five-time European winners have missed the mark in the competitions in recent seasons, including unprecedented loss to Liverpool and Roma in the knockout adjusts throughout the last two seasons.
They anyway have remained an overwhelming power in Spain, having won the league in four of the last five seasons.
Be that as it may, Barca have just got to the final of Europe’s premier club competition once in the last seven years.
Ancelotti, whose side face Barca in a well friendly in Florida on Wednesday, feels Ernesto Valverde’s men ought to be contenders yet again this season, in the wake of seeing any semblance of Antoine Griezmann and Frenkie de Jong touch base to reinforce a squad that still has Lionel Messi.
“I believe that Barcelona is always a candidate to win the Champions League.
“It has a player like [Lionel] Messi and many others, so I think they always compete to win the maximum and the maximum is the Champions League.
“I think that with the signings they have done, this year will be very competitive,” he told a news conference
