Edward Weiss, the former general council for Liverpool's current owners, Fenway, has revealed FSG were shocked at the lack of quality the squad contained when the Reds were acquired in 2010.
Weiss made the admission at a hearing in the ongoing legal dispute between Mill Financial, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Liverpool's former owner George Gillett. The dispute started after Gillett and former co-owner Tom Hicks were unable to repay a £280 million loan, per MailOnline's Matt Maltby.
Per Maltby, Weiss highlighted former Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina and striker Fernando Torres as "probably beyond their primes":
Like trying to catch a knife falling off the table, you're not sure where before it's hit the ground you've caught it.