They are on 5th. I hate it. They are there because of Monaco.
Sad to see Netherlands, who originated the greatest football in the world, at 11th. Yes, at ELEVENTH!!!
It's all about marketing since early 00's. and European laws of playing max. 3 foreign players being scrapped.
NL are just too small of a country to play a big role in the world. Dutch people don't pay €100 per month to watch soccer on tv, we already complain when it's €10. Besides that nobody outside a few people did follow the national league, and clubs like Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV where lacking to keep their players above 22/23 years of age.
While in the past the clubs could keep them until 26/27 before they left to the big clubs, now so called 'talents' are lured with big contracts at the age of 19-21. No time to build a team anymore for any of these clubs, as the majority of your squad is sold after one good year.
Of course they should be able to play better in Europe (be at least somewhere 8th or 9th), everytime the season starts (half July) you are still getting robbed of your best players in the middle of August. One step to create a better based squad for all teams in Europe is to have the transferdeadline on the date qualifiers of EL/CL start.