Peter Crouch reveals which player forced him away from Liverpool

Peter Crouch’s time at Liverpool ended earlier than he would have appreciated and it was all due to one participant who fashioned a reference to Steven Gerrard.

It was actually an honour for Peter Crouch to make the transfer to Liverpool in 2005. The enormous centre ahead had simply completed backside of the Premier League with Southampton, but was in a position to be a part of the membership who had simply been topped because the champions of Europe.

Crouch made 64 high flight appearances throughout his first two seasons at Liverpool, however he would go on to solely make 21 in his third marketing campaign on the membership.

This was because of the arrival of Fernando Torres from Ateltico Madrid. The Spanish striker was immediately a success at Liverpool and scored 33 targets in 46 appearances throughout all competitions.

Crouch instructed The Managers podcast: “Three and a half I believe [the length of time he was at Liverpool]. Yeah it was Torres that put paid to that, sadly. He got here in and hit it off with Stevie and it was like watching my outdated girlfriend.”

Torres was a degree above Crouch along with his goalscoring potential and his arrival was the start of the tip for the Englishman at Anfield.

Nevertheless, Torres departed for Chelsea three years after Crouch joined Portsmouth, which has left the footballer-turned-pundit questioning if he made the suitable choice to depart Liverpool.

“He [Torres] got here in and I used to be similar to, one thing that does wrangle with me I suppose over time was that he ended up leaving and I watched gamers that had been taking part in up entrance there, [Andriy] Voronin and [David] Ngog, no disrespect to them, however I felt that I used to be higher than them.”

Crouch went on to seem in each Premier League fixture Portsmouth performed the season after he departed Liverpool. The striker then joined Tottenham Hotspur, the place he continued to be an vital participant.

Nevertheless, he has named Liverpool as the most important membership he has ever performed for and had he stayed, maybe he would have made his method again into the first-team.

He added: “And I felt possibly if I had stayed, I may have had an extended profession on the membership as a result of I don’t really feel that I type of ever went to a much bigger membership than Liverpool.”

Torres too may need some regrets about leaving the Reds. He did have success at Chelsea, even profitable the Champions League in 2012.

Nevertheless, it was not the most effective transfer for Torres on a private degree, as he solely netted 45 occasions in 172 appearances.