We know what you're thinking. It doesn't seem like five minutes since Paris, but somehow we're off and running again.
The group stages of the Champions League begin once more on Tuesday night, when - on paper anyway - 32 teams go for glory in a bid to reach the Istanbul final on *checks notes* June 10.
Bit while we all know there are only really six sides who can reach that final, maybe eight or 10 at a push, just who are they?
Well, as is tradition, we're opening the tournament with our Mirror Football power rankings.
Make sure you read the terms and conditions before you get angry.
These power rankings aren't necessarily the order of the best teams, more their likelihood of winning the competition based on their form, summer additions, and most crucially group stage draw.
If you don't remember the groups, here they are:
Group A: Ajax, Liverpool, Napoli, Rangers
Group B: Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen, Club Brugge, Porto
Group C: Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Inter Milan, Viktoria Plzen
Group D: Frankfurt, Marseille, Sporting Lisbon, Tottenham
Group E: Chelsea, Dinamo Zagreb, Salzburg, AC Milan
Group F: Celtic, RB Leipzig, Real Madrid, Shakhtar Donetsk
Group G: Dortmund, Copenhagen, Manchester City, Sevilla
Group H: Benfica, Juventus, Maccabi Haifa, Paris Saint-Germain
Ready? Let's go.
32. Viktoria Plzen
Someone is destined to be the doormat every year, and unfortunately for the Czech champions this time they take the 'honours'.
After coming through three qualifying rounds Michal Bilek's side have made the group stages for the first time since the 2018-19 season, and although they possess plenty of exciting young local talent in their side, the fact that they're in Group C with Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan means that is where the adventure will end.
31. Maccabi Haifa
A first group stage appearance since 2009-10 for the Israelis, who back then lost every game but only conceded eight goals along the way.
They'll probably ship more than that in a group with Benfica, Juventus and PSG, and going forward they'll be relying on the ageing limbs of ex-QPR midfielder Tjaronn Chery and former Chelsea wonderkid Ben Sahar.
30. FC Copenhagen
Copenhagen reached the last-16 of the Europa Conference League last season before being knocked out 8-4 on aggregate by PSV Eindhoven, and they're going to have to defend better than that when they face Manchester City this time around.
Dortmund and Sevilla also make up Group G, meaning that finishing anywhere but bottom is a huge ask.
29. Dinamo Zagreb
It is Chelsea first up for the Croatians, who are managed by former international boss Ante Cacic and who return to the group stages after two seasons away.
Back then they finished bottom and you'd surprised if this was a different story as they take on the free-flowing AC Milan and Salzburg.
28. Club Brugge
No strangers to this stage, the Belgians are back after a fourth domestic league title in five years.
Familiar faces include Simon Mignolet and Dedryck Boyata, while they've managed to hold on to exciting young Dutch winger Noa Lang.
Up against Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen and Porto though, third will surely be the best they could do.
27. Rangers
The feelgood factor from battling past PSV Eindhoven and making the group stages, so soon after last season's Europa League final heartbreak, was somewhat washed away at the weekend when Rangers were thrashed 4-0 in the Old Firm derby.
Perhaps a trip to Ajax on Wednesday is exactly what the fans need then, and they are likely to need to get something in a group that also contains Liverpool and Napoli.
26. Shakhtar Donetsk
With football having now returned in Ukraine, perennial champions Shakhtar are back and no doubt dreaming of emulating their best ever Champions League showing of a quarter-final spot in 2011.
That'll be tough, but the 'home' matches against Celtic and RB Leipzig in Warsaw could be quite something, even if group favourites Real Madrid will more than fancy their chances against them.
25. Salzburg
With Dinamo Zagreb in their group the Austrians will at least hope to ensure they have European football into the New Year, although overhauling Chelsea and AC Milan to finish in the top two will be tricky.
As ever, Salzburg possess an array of exciting young talents from all over the world, and you bet scouts will be watching them closely.
24. Sporting Lisbon
It has been an unusually below-par start to the season for the Portuguese giants, who have won just one of their five league matches and look a little light in midfield having lost Joao Palhinha to Fulham and Matheus Nunes to Wolves.
The bright lights of the Premier League will always be an issue for Sporting, and in a group with Tottenham, Marseille and Frankfurt they'll face a fight to avoid finishing bottom.
23. Bayer Leverkusen
Four defeats from their opening five Bundesliga games have set the alarm bells ringing at Leverkusen, where head coach Gerardo Seoane is in danger of losing the goodwill he picked up for last season's third place finish.
There are still some very good players in the squad, with Callum Hudson-Odoi recently added, but results such a 4-3 German Cup defeat to third tier side SV Elversberg and home league losses to Augsburg, Hoffenheim and Freiburg mean that Seoane might be lucky to make it to the end of the group stages.
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22. Celtic
After wrestling back the Scottish title from Rangers, Ange Postecoglou's Celtic sit alongside them in the group stages this season, although the early indications are that they are a better side.
Last weekend's 4-0 Old Firm derby win showed that, and with exciting attacking talents including Kyogo Furuhashi, Liel Abada and the Portuguese talent Jota, they'll hope to outscore Leipzig and Shakhtar Donetsk in their group, after navigating a opening night clash with Real Madrid.
21. Sevilla
It has been an awful start to the La Liga season for Julen Lopetegui, who has seen his side lose three of their opening four games including a 3-0 home trouncing by Barcelona at the weekend.
Early signs are that the side are struggling to counter the losses of several of their more established stars from recent seasons, and after the Barcelona loss the last thing Lopetegui would have wanted was that favourite son of Catalonia, Pep Guardiola, and his Manchester City side arriving on Tuesday.
It could be a sticky start.
20. Leipzig
The 2020 semi-finalists are always going to lose players, as that is their model, but this time around they arrive in the competition looking a little weaker than the side which finished fourth in the Bundesliga last season.
Sure they have re-added the goals of the returning Timo Werner after his spell at Chelsea simply didn't work out, but it is in the constant churn at the back - where they lost Nordi Mukiele to PSG this summer, to go along with the recent departures of Ibrahima Konate and Dayot Upamecano - where they look to be struggling, as seen in last weekend's 4-0 defeat to Frankfurt.
19. Marseille
Okay they aren't quite the controversial European champions of 1993, but there's a confidence to Marseille following last season's second place finish in Ligue 1.
Argentinean Jorge Sampaoli walked away after that, but new boss Igor Tudor has started with five wins and a draw in the league, as a squad full of familiar Premier League faces seek to try and keep on the coattails of PSG for as long as possible.
A rejuvenated Alexis Sanchez has three goals for the season so far, as amazingly does Arsenal outcast Nuno Tavares from left-back.
It could be fun watching them play Tottenham.
18. Eintracht Frankfurt
The Europa League holders arrive into the competition off the back of hammering Leipzig 4-0 and probably feeling that they can cause some damage in the aforementioned group with Tottenham, Marseille and Sporting Lisbon.
World Cup winner Mario Gotze has arrived to sprinkle a bit of stardust, and adds to Oliver Glasner's league of nations who will be seeking to make their mark both for their current club and then potentially any future moves, with Filip Kostic having already jumped ship for Juventus.
17. Benfica
We usually see the Portuguese outfit in the last-16, but that possibility has been made more difficult by two factors this time around: the sale of last season's talisman Darwin Nunez to Liverpool and the presence of PSG and Juventus in their group.
Granted, having effectively knocked Barcelona out at the first hurdle last season, Benfica won't feel too scared of a Juve side that are not what they were, but the Portuguese champions will need the likes of exciting attacker David Neres - a strong course and distance runner in the Champions League with Ajax in the past - to step up.
16. Ajax
Speaking of Ajax, it has been all change in Amsterdam.
Erik ten Hag managed to take Lisandro Martinez and Antony with him when he left for Manchester in the summer, and replacement Alfred Schreuder also saw Ryan Gravenberch, Sebastien Haller, Nicolas Tagliafico and Perr Schuurs depart.
No matter. Impressive replacements have been brought in - including Steven Bergwijn from Tottenham who has seven goals in six games - and the process can begin again, although they are in a tough group with Liverpool, Napoli and Rangers.
15. Porto
You're thinking it, they're thinking it. Last-16.
That's what Porto usually do, and after a fairly quiet summer of transfer business that's what they'll be expecting to do again as they take their place in a group including Atletico Madrid, Bayer Leverkusen and Club Brugge.
Midfielders Fabio Vieira and Vitinha have been lost but most of the old faces are still around, including Pepe who'll be 40 in late February when those knockout stages take place.
14. Inter Milan
Two defeats in their opening five Serie A matches isn't an ideal start for Simone Inzaghi, but last season's last-16 clash with Liverpool showed that they can mix it with the best in this competition.
They're going to have to as well, with Barcelona and Bayern Munich in their group this time around - probably the only reason they find themselves below all three of their fellow Serie A sides here.
The return of Romelu Lukaku was the headline summer addition, and he's going to have to fire to get them into the knockout stages.
13. Juventus
Three draws from their opening five Serie A matches have done little to dispel the concerns about Max Allegri's Juventus, who limped home in fourth last season and spent the bulk of their summer transfer budget on Brazilian defender Bremer while some big names left the club.
Free agents Paul Pogba and Angel Di Maria did arrive to provide a sprinkling of stardust, but the former is already injured and there are concerns about the side's lack of goals beyond Dusan Vlahovic.
The group stage meetings with Benfica look crucial.
12. Napoli
Always a dangerous side, last season's third-place finishers in Serie A are presiding over an unbeaten start to the season and are Italy's top scorers.
Granted it is a small sample size, and reports of an injury to Victor Osimhen before the Liverpool opener aren't helpful, but in Georgian youngster Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who has four goals in his first five games for the club, they look to have unearthed a real talent.
The Reds need to be wary of him, and Ajax and Rangers will need to stop him.
11. Borussia Dortmund
The awful news of Sebastien Haller's testicular cancer diagnosis has rightfully overshadowed summer events in Dortmund, but the summer signing is on the mend and hopeful of a Dortmund debut soon - as is everyone else.
Without him Dortmund have looked a little meek in attack following the departure of goal robot Erling Haaland, who they'll come face to face with in a group that also includes Sevilla and Copenhagen.
They should make it through in second, and anything from there is a bonus.
10. Atletico Madrid
Diego Simeone is back yet again, and while his new iteration of Atletico Madrid might not carry quite the same threat as his old ones, they will still fully expect to make the last-16 and then potentially beyond.
A tight, experienced squad have now added the knowhow of the Belgian Axel Witsel, and with Simeone able to hold on to pretty much all of his side's big names this summer bar the veteran Luis Suarez, the Argentinean will load up his troops and send them out to battle once more.
A tight, tetchy knockout match with an English side is surely on the cards at some point.
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9. AC Milan
For possibly the first time since their Athens victory over Liverpool in 2007, we've got an AC Milan who could be a force to be reckoned with in the Champions League.
The Italian champions are a vibrant, attack-minded unit, something they showed in their 3-2 Milan derby win at the weekend, and their perfect blend between exciting young talents and experienced older heads is exemplified by last season's joint-top scorers Rafael Leao (23) and Olivier Giroud (soon to be 36).
The Frenchman in particular will enjoy a crack at Chelsea in Group E, and the Milanese promise to be a lively team to watch.
8. Tottenham Hotspur
A team growing into themselves and growing into the image of their manager, Antonio Conte's Spurs have the look of a side that most if not all others in the competition will want to avoid.
Helped by a kind group stage draw, the Londoners will hold no fears as they take on Frankfurt, Marseille and Sporting Lisbon, meaning that a last-16 favouritism is very much in reach.
With 2022 signings Richarlison and Dejan Kulusevski adding to the attacking old firm of Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, anything could be possible from there.
7. Barcelona
Just how they are doing it remains something of an oddity, but after another summer of churn at Catalonia, Barcelona have ended up with a collection of players coach Xavi feels he can mould into what he wants.
Robert Lewandowski, Jules Kounde and Raphinha were the three snapped up for big fees in the summer, and they are supplemented by a collection of players brought in on 'free' transfers, although with large signing on fees.
As ever they'll be ones to watch in the group stages, particularly against Lewandowski's former club Bayern Munich.
6. Chelsea
The summer trolley dash by new owner Todd Boehly is now finally over, and Chelsea fans are left looking at just what their side have picked up in the sales.
Yes things have been somewhat chaotic, and Premier League results including defeats at Leeds and Southampton have been patchy, but a squad which has added the talents of Kalidou Koulibaly, Wesley Fofana, Raheem Sterling and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - surprisingly set to play in just his fifth season of Champions League football - can't be discounted from a run to the last four.
5. Bayern Munich
The big question: How will they cope without Lewandowski?
The Poland star has guaranteed goals in Bavaria but now Julian Nagelsmann is banking on a more holistic approach to goalscoring, led by Sadio Mane.
Jamal Musiala is playing an increasingly key role for the Bavarians in midfield, while Matthijs de Ligt and Dayot Upamecano are a new look centre-back pairing with the Dutchman already looking far more at home in Germany than he ever did during his time with Juventus.
4. Paris Saint-Germain
In cruise control against Real Madrid, they fell apart in last season’s second round and that ultimately proved the death knell for Mauricio Pochettino’s reign.
Now Christophe Gaultier is at the helm and is banking on a 3-4-2-1 formation with Kylian Mbappe at the top of the attack; Neymar and Lionel Messi are afforded freedom but the defensive structure isn’t sacrificed.
It’s worked extremely well so far in the early weeks of the Ligue 1 season, and Gaultier has already begun rotating with a view to keeping key men fresh for later in the campaign.
Having brought in a number of younger players over the summer - including Vitinha, Hugo Ekitike and Renato Sanches - they look in a better place than they have in recent campaigns.
3. Liverpool
Last season’s beaten finalists, they’re banking on being able to do without the consistent brilliance of Mane to challenge again and for Darwin Nunez to step up to the plate.
Three finals in the past five years prove that they know how to run the course, and Jürgen Klopp will be hoping that his experienced stars can again lead by example, while banking on youngsters like Harvey Elliott and Fabio Carvalho to come to the fore as the season progresses.
Mohamed Salah and Alisson, at either end, will be crucial once more.
2. Real Madrid
The holders who know better than anyone else how to win this trophy.
Whether they can defend their title will be down to Karim Benzema and if he can get near last season’s 15 goals, and the growing brilliance of Brazilian winger Vinicius Jr.
Expect to see more of Eduardo Camavinga following the departure of Casemiro in midfield.
They don’t ever tend to fly through the group stages, but when the knockout rounds begin, you know they’ll be in the mix, by hook or by crook.
1. Manchester City
Pep Guardiola’s men were the best side in Europe last season, save for around 34 minutes at the Santiago Bernabeu when they crumbled to Real Madrid’s other-worldly European force.
Now City look even stronger, with the frighteningly-efficient Erling Haaland leading the attack and bringing the kind of ruthless focal point that has, ultimately, proved costly in recent seasons.
Forget what you’re told about winning Europe’s premier club crown not dominating the thoughts of City execs and Guardiola; it does, particularly Pep, who hasn’t won the Champions League in 11 years now.
They really do look the team to beat.
