Liverpool have slipped 50 places in the UEFA rankings under FSG (Picture: Getty)

For Liverpool fans, even the 2013/14 season is a distant memory, let alone the glory days of 2005.

On Thursday night, Brendan Rodgers’ side will travel to Bordeaux to get their Europa League campaign underway, and it is a game that is depressingly representative of the club’s current European standing.

As noted by Paul Joyce of the Express, when Fenway Sports Group assumed control of the Reds back in October 2010, they were fifth in the UEFA rankings, having famously battered Real Madrid 4-0 just a year and a half earlier.

Now, though, Liverpool sit 55th in the rankings, behind the likes of Trabzonspor, Genk, Alkmaar and FC Metalist Kharkiv.


Liverpool take on Bordeaux on Thursday in the Europa League (Picture: Reuters)

To make matters worse, all of Liverpool’s main domestic rivals sit way above them in the ranking, with Tottenham even rated as the 24th best team in Europe.



We don’t see things getting much better any time soon, either…

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