This season’s Champions League looks the most open in many a year.

Despite Real Madrid dominating the competition for the past three years, the exits of Zinedine Zidane and Cristiano Ronaldo this summer may stop them from winning it for a fourth consecutive season.

Instead, the bookmakers believe Manchester City could lift the trophy for the first time in their history, with Pep Guardiola’s side ranked as favourites.

But there are at least another six clubs that will be looking to go all the way to Madrid come May next year with Barcelona, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Liverpool all having realistic ambitions of winning the European Cup.

Elsewhere, the likes of Atletico Madrid, Tottenham, Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund and Roma will all hope to reach the latter stages - and possibly further.

It’s almost impossible to call.

However, that hasn’t stopped Dimitar Berbatov from predicting the two sides - well, three - he thinks could reach the final at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium.

Berbatov believes Juventus will be there but he couldn’t quite decide on who they will be playing.

"I think Juventus will reach the final and I see Manchester City or Barcelona joining them there," Berbatov told the Mirror.

"The way that City play and the players they have mean that they of course have to be amongst the favourites and I’m certain they will do better than last year’s effort of being knocked out in the quarter-finals by Liverpool.

"Real Madrid have obviously lost Ronaldo to Juve, it doesn’t mean the team is weak, they clearly have great players, but it’s Barcelona I see as being the stronger of the Spanish teams this year.

"Who will actually win it? Without watching the early rounds how can you possibly say? It’s so close between those top teams at the moment that without watching any games it’s impossible to say."

Berbatov may have stopped short of saying who will actually win the 2019 Champions League but predicting a Juventus vs Man City/Barcelona final is a pretty big shout.

Let the new Champions League campaign commence…