The UEFA Europa League round of 32 shall begin next week. All the qualified teams plus 8 additional team from Champions League have handed over their squad changes for the next round on February, 2. Each team is allowed to register three new eligible names. The cup-tied rules is no longer applied regardless their previous teams’ competition. Yet, it is still a long and winding road to Gdansk, Poland, where this year’s final takes place.
Arsenal, Club Brugge and Glasgow Rangers crossed out the most names, with six players excluded from the each team squad. Yet, the most shocking one came from Ajax. The Dutch top leader reportedly made an administrative error by missing out their most notable new signing this month, Sebastian Haller, while registering their squad changes this week. It is definitely a devastating news for the Ivorian striker who has hoped to play in continental competition. Here is the complete list for the entire qualified teams:
Ajax:
In: Ousama Idrissi (Sevilla, loan)
Out: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Schalke), Victor Jensen (Nordsjælland, loan)
Antwerp
In: Felipe Avanetti (Standard Liège, loan), Didier Lamkel Zé, Maxime Le Marchand (Fulham, loan)
Out: Cristian Benavente (Charleroi, loan), Simen Juklerød, Benson Manuel (Zwolle, loan)
Arsenal
In: Gabriel Martinelli, Martin Ødegaard (Real Madrid, loan), Mat Ryan (Brighton, loan)
Out: Sead Kolašinac (Schalke, loan), Matt Macey (Hibernian), Ainsley Maitland-Niles (West Brom, loan), Shkodran Mustafi (Schalke), Joe Willock (Newcastle, loan), Rúnar Rúnarsson
Benfica
In: Branimir Kalaica, Lucas Veríssimo (Santos)
Out: Ferro (Valencia, loan), Jean-Clair Tobido (end of loan)
Braga
In: Cristián Borja (Sporting CP), Andraž Šporar (Sporting CP, loan), Lucas Piazón (Chelsea)
Out: Paulinho (Sporting CP), Guilherme Schettine (UD Almería, loan), Iuri Medeiros
Club Brugge
In: Bas Dost (Eintracht Frankfurt), Nabil Dirar (Fenerbahçe, loan), Stefano Denswil (Bologna, loan)
Out: Krépin Diatta (Monaco), Siebe Schrijvers (Leuven), Emmanuel Dennis (Köln), Simon Deli (Slavia Praha, loan), Michael Krmenčík (PAOK, loan), Siebe Schrijvers (OH Leuven)
Crvena zvezda 5-1
In: Filippo Falco (Lecce), Axel Bakayoko (Internazionale), Slavoljub Srnić (released)
Out: Veljko Simić (Vojvodina), Srdjan Spiridonović (Gençlerbirliği, loan), Richmond Boakye (released)
Dinamo Zagreb
In: Marijan Čabraja (Gorica), Josip Mišić, Stefan Ristovski (Sporting CP)
Out: Mario Ćuže (Lokomotiva, loan), Roko Jurišić (Rijeka), Josip Šutalo (Istra, loan)
Dynamo Kyiv
In: Artem Besedin, Sidcley
Out: Heorhii Tsitaishvili (Vorskla, loan), Clayton
Granada
In: none
Out: none
Hoffenheim
In: Georginio Rutter (Rennes), Chris Richards (Bayern, loan)
Out: João Klauss (Standard Liège, loan), Jacob Bruun Larsen (Anderlecht, loan)
Krasnodar
In: Denis Adamov, Aleksei Ionov
Out: Maksim Kutovoi, Andrei Sinitsin (released)
Leicester
In: Daniel Amartey
Out: Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (Luton, loan), Wes Morgan
Leverkusen
In: Demarai Gray (Leicester), Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Manchester United), Jeremie Frimpong (Celtic)
Out: Santiago Arias, Julian Baumgartlinger, Lennart Grill
LOSC
In: none
Out: Fadiga Ouattara (Valencia, loan), Cheikh Niasse (Panathnaikos), Adama Soumaoro (Bologna)
Maccabi Tel-Aviv
In: André Geraldes (APOEL), Uroš Nikolić, Matan Hozez
Out: Roslan Barsky (Hapoel Haifa, loan), Ben Bitton, Ronen Hanzis (Beitar Tel-Aviv, loan), Tal Torgeman
Manchester United
In: Nathan Bishop, Amad Diallo (Atalanta), Phil Jones
Out: Facundo Pellistri (Alaves, loan), Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Leverkusen), Jesse Lingard (West Ham, loan), Odion Ighalo (end of loan)
AC Milan
In: Mario Mandžukić (free agent), Soualiho Meïté (Torino, loan), Fikayo Tomori (Chelsea, loan)
Out: Léo Duarte (İstanbul Başakşehir, loan), Andrea Conti (Parma, loan), Lorenzo Colombo (Cremonese, loan), Mateo Musacchio (Lazio), Jens Petter Hauge
Molde
In: Emil Breivik, David Datro Fofana (Angers, loan), Björn Sigurdsson (Lillestrøm)
Out: Henry Wingo (Ferencváros), Leke James (al-Qadisiyah), Mattias Moström (released)
Napoli
In: None
Out: None
Olympiacos
In: Kenny Lala (Strasbourg), Oleg Reabciuk (Paços Ferreira), Sokratis Papastathopoulos (Arsenal)
Out: Pape Abou Cissé (St-Étienne, loan), Hilal Soudani (Al-Fateh), Bruno (Aris), Pêpê (Famalicão, loan), Rúben Vinagre (end of loan)
PSV
In: Erick Gutiérrez, Fredrik Oppegård, Dante Rigo
Out: Djenairo Daniels, Kristófer Kristinsson, Rico Zeegers (Maastricht, loan), Jorrit Hendrix (Spartak Moskva)
Glasgow Rangers
In: Jack Simpson (Bournemouth), Scott Wright (Aberdeen)
Out: Brandon Barker (Oxford, loan), Nicky Hogarth (Cowdenbeath, loan), Dapo Mebude (Queen of the South, loan), Cameron Palmer (Linfield), Jack Thomson (Clyde, loan), Ben Williamson (Arbroath, loan)
Real Sociedad
In: Carlos Fernández (Sevilla)
Out: Willian José (Wolves, loan)
Roma
In: Daniel Fuzato, Stephan El Shaarawy (free agent)
Out: Federico Fazio, Juan Jesus
Salzburg
In: Nico Mantl (Unterhaching), Bernardo (Brighton, loan), Brenden Aaronson (Philadelphia)
Out: Dominik Szoboszlai (Leipzig), Masaya Okugawa (Bielefeld, loan), Jérôme Onguéné (Genoa, loan), Majeed Ashimeru (Anderlecht, loan)
Shakhtar Donetsk
In: none
Out: Alexander Drambayev (Mariupol), Viktor Kovalenko (Atalanta), Vladyslav Vakula (Mariupol, loan)
Slavia Praha
In: Alexander Bah (SonderyskE), Simon Deli (Club Brugge, loan), Jakub Hromada
Out: Petar Musa (Union Berlin, loan), Ondřej Karafiát (Liberec, loan), Tomáš Malinský (Mladá Boleslav, loan)
Tottenham
In: Marcel Lavinier
Out: Cameron Carter-Vickers (Bournemouth, loan), Jack Clarke (Stoke, loan)
Villarreal
In: Étienne Capoue (Watford), Hassan Haissem, Andrei Rațiu
Out: Soufiane Chakla (Getafe, loan), Vicente Iborra, Takefusa Kubo (end of loan)
Wolfsberg
In: Gustav Henriksson (Elfsborg), Thorsten Röcher (Ingolstadt)
Out: Marc Andre Schmerböck (Hartberg), Marko Soldo
Young Boys
In: none
Out: Nicolas Bürgy (Paderborn, loan), Léo Seydoux (Westerlo), Taulant Seferi (KF Tirana, loan)