Liverpool’s former director of football Damien Comolli tipped Paris Saint-Germain for big things when the French club were taken over by Qatar Sports Investments in 2011.

PSG were closing in on a move for Javier Pastore, having already signed Blaise Matuidi and Jeremy Menez, and Comolli envisioned an era of Parisian dominance.

"PSG could be in a league of their own for the next five to 10 years," Comolli told BBC Sport.

Arsenal scout Gilles Grimandi offered a similar sentiment.

"They are now on another planet,” Grimandi admitted.

It’s true that PSG have turned the French league into a monopoly, something that has been threatened this year by Monaco, but they haven’t made the splash in Europe that many predicted.

Since their Qatari takeover, PSG haven’t progressed beyond the quarter-finals of the Champions League and this year suffered a debilitating exit at the hands of Barcelona in the round-of-16.

To think of PSG without the money would be to remember a time when Antoine Kombouare was the manager and Nene was their best player.

They finished fourth in Ligue 1 in 2010-11. GiveMeSport has decided to take a look at how their team shaped up on FIFA 10 compared to how it looks today - and it’s remarkably better.

FIFA 11

GK | Gregory Coupet | 78

RB | Christophe Jallet | 73

CB | Sylvain Armand | 76

CB | Mamadou Sakho | 76

LB | Siaka Tiene | 70

RW | Ludovic Giuly | 76

CM | Claude Makelele | 73

CM | Clement Chantome | 75

LW | Nene | 80

ST | Mevlut Erdinc | 78

ST | Guillaume Hoarau | 78

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FIFA 17

GK | Kevin Trapp | 83

RB | Serge Aurier | 83

CB | Thiago Silva | 89

CB | Marquinhos | 82

LB | Layvin Kurzawa | 81

CM | Marco Verratti | 85

CM | Adrien Rabiot | 80

CM | Blaise Matuidi | 86 

RW | Angel di Maria | 87

LW | Julian Draxler | 84

ST | Edinson Cavani | 86

And to think, until the summer PSG’s squad also included a certain Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

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