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Fenway Sports Group have admitted they underestimated how poor the Liverpool squad was when they took over the club in 2010.FSG said they attended just one less than thrilling match before their £295m takeover and did not realise players such as Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina were probably beyond their primes.The comments emerged during a legal dispute involving former Liverpool owner George Gillett and Mill Financial - who were also making overtures to take over the five-time European champions before losing out to FSG. U-turn welcomed Spirit of Shankly hope owners have learned lesson after ticket U-turn I think we underestimated how poor the playing quality of the squad was, and frankly, we underestimated how difficult it was going to be to stabilise the asset, FSGs former general counsel Edward Weiss said.We obviously did some due diligence on the playing squad during this process before we closed on the transaction in the middle of October of 2010. What we came to know was that the playing squad was poor.While we had a few top players like Steven Gerrard, other players like Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina were probably beyond their primes, and Javier Mascherano was not even on the team. Pepe Reina made over 280 appearances for the club over nine years Weiss also revealed that the group attended just one match before going ahead with the takeover - and were less than impressed.He added: In due diligence, we attended one match. Most of us had never been to a Premier League match; so it was going to be hard to recommend to our investor group that we buy a football club without ever having been to one. The one we saw was less than thrilling. It was a near no-match. Get a Sky Sports Day Pass Dont miss Crystal Palace v Liverpool. Watch live on NOW TV for ￡6.99. No contract.Also See:Utd v Liverpool movedHenderson demands consistencyMersons predictionsBrandon Drury Blue Jays Jersey . 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Zetterberg has 11 goals and 19 assists for a team-high 30 points, and Datsyuk has a team-high 12 goals and 11 assists.GURNEE, Ill. -- For the United States and Taiwan, the first session of the UL International Crown was a repeat of the first day of the inaugural event two years ago.Each country is hoping for a better weekend.The U.S. lost both of its four-ball matches to England, and Yani Tseng helped Taiwan sweep Australia on Thursday in the rare team event on the LPGA Tour.Lexi Thompson and Cristie Kerr lost 2 and 1 to Holly Clyburn and Jodi Ewart Shadoff, and Stacy Lewis and Gerina Piller fell to Charley Hull and Melissa Reid by the same score. Thompson, Kerr and Lewis also were on the American team that was swept on the first day of the first International Crown in 2014 and finished sixth.Thats what this format is. You play good golf and youre going to lose matches, and thats the way it goes, Lewis said. Were going to go out there and play good golf again, and hopefully we get on the good side of it. Were still in this thing, and weve just got to take care of business tomorrow.Next up is two more days of four-ball matches at the sprawling Merit Club about 40 miles northwest of Chicago. The top two teams in each pool and the winner of wild-card playoff between the third-place teams will advance to the singles matches Sunday, with each player from the winning country taking home $100,000 apiece.With the course set up for low scores, world No. 6 Ariya Jutanugarn made seven birdies while playing with Porani Chutichai for Thailand, but they only managed a halve against Japans Ai Suzuki and Ayaka Watanabe. Jutanugarns sister, Moriya, teamed with Pornanong Phatum for a 2-and-1 win over Haru Nomura and Mika Miyazato.Top-seeded South Korea, with each of its four players ranked in the top 12, split its two matches against No. 8 China. Amy Yang and In Gee Chun won 2 up over Shanshan Feng and Xi Yu Lin, but Jing Yan and Simin Feng got two points for China with a 1-up victory over Sei Young Kim and So Yeon Ryu.The Chinese girls just played really, really great, Ryu said. They made an eagle, they made a bunker shot. I think their teamwork was really nice.Tseng and Teresa Lu went off in the first match and cruised to a 3-and-2 victory over Karrie Webb and Su Oh. Tseng and Lu then wattched as Candie Kung and Ssu-Chia Cheng posted a 2-up win over Rebecca Artis and Minjee Lee.ddddddddddddTaiwan also won its first two matches at Caves Valley Golf Club in Maryland in 2014, but didnt score another point all weekend.We changed a little bit about the strategy about how were going to play this year because we both won on the first day, like four points, but we lose them on Friday and Saturday, Tseng said. We kind of changed it a little bit, the teammates and the strategy on the golf course. We tried to make as much birdies as we can instead of one play aggressive and one play more smart and safe.Thompson and Kerr never led in their match. Clyburn closed it out with a birdie on the par-4 17th.We played really well on the front, and on the back we didnt play well enough to win, Kerr said. A couple more putts go in, a couple better shots. I left Lexi a couple times as a partner, and you cant do that in four-ball if you want to win.China and England did not make the field for the inaugural event, which is determined by the cumulative rankings of the countrys top four players on a given date. They replaced champion Spain and runner-up Sweden.We were saying along the way, were all pretty big football fans, and obviously we had the Euros recently and we made more points in one day than England did in the whole tournament, so can I just point that out, a smiling Reid said. So were pretty proud of that, so were already on a winner.Hull and Reid won three straight holes to go from 1 down to 1 up heading to the back nine. The 20-year-old Hull had three straight birdies and Reid eagled No. 8, a 468-yard par 5.After Lewis birdied No. 15 to square the match, Hull posted an eagle and a birdie to close it out for England.I just love playing in this kind of environment, especially when you are a bit of an underdog, said Hull, who is headed to the Olympics next month. I just like proving people wrong, and it just makes you go out there, gives you a little bit more of a buzz.---Jay Cohen can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/jcohenap ' ' '