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Peter Crouch 'lost £25,000' on car sale after Roy Keane made him 'feel like a t***'
Peter Crouch decided to flog his brand-new Aston Martin at a loss back in 2005 after a chance encounter with Manchester United legend Roy Keane at the traffic lights
Peter Crouch has recalled the embarrassing incident involving Roy Keane that led to him losing £25,000 on the sale of a new car.
Crouch was on top of the world when he swapped Southampton for Liverpool in a £7million transfer back in 2005. The towering striker had begun to establish himself as a top Premier League goal scorer and was rewarded with a call-up to the England squad.
He decided to celebrate his upward trajectory in the typical way a footballer might, by splashing out on an expensive car. Crouch purchased an Aston Martin and, feeling very happy with himself, took it out for a spin.
That's when everything changed and led to him immediately selling it for a loss of around £25,000. "I bought an Aston Martin when I was kind of playing for Liverpool,' he said on the Therapy Crouch Podcast. 'I got in the England squad and I thought, 'yeah I have made it, I'll get an Aston Martin, I deserve it'.
"But I knew I looked like a t*** in it. And then I was driving around, I remember seeing Roy Keane at the lights. He just gave me a look of like 'what a d*******'. I had my arm out, bins on, listening to some garage.
"And he just looked at me like a piece of s***. And I literally, with that look sold the car that week. It was one of the nicest cars like ever, but I had just started well as it was like a little bit too much."
Keane's withering look is legendary and his disapproval of young players who act above their station helped him rule the Manchester United dressing room. The Irishman's reputation was such that it extended to bitter rivals Liverpool.
'I've never felt smaller in all my life,' Crouch said back in 2020. 'He didn't even give me a wave or a nod of appreciation or anything, he just drove off. I looked at myself in the mirror and thought 'no, you've lost the plot here'. I sold the car that week and must have taken a £25k hit on it."
It actually took Crouch 19 games in a Liverpool shirt before he scored his first goal for the club. But he did go on to net 42 goals in 135 games for the club to go with his 23 assists.
Crouch won the FA Cup in his first season on Merseyside, but that was his only major piece of silverware in three years there, with the Reds finishing as runners-up in the Champions League in 2006/07.
