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Craig HillPeter Crouch may quit Liverpool
April 8th 2008 06:21
Liverpool striker Peter Crouch appears to be on the brink of a summer exit from Anfield in search of regular first team football for next season.
Despite Liverpool's offer of a new contract, the bean-pole England striker feels that he needs to be playing regularly if he was to harbour any aspirations of playing for England and furthering his career at the highest level.
The tallest player in the Premier League arrived at Anfield from Southampton in a Ł7million deal during 2005 but is well down the pecking order behind boss Rafa Benitez's first choice pairing of Fernando Torres and Dirk Kuyt.
"I would love to stay, it is a fantastic club and I love everything about it, but I have got to be realistic.
"If I want to have any aspirations of playing for England, or furthering my career, then I have to be playing - and that doesn't seem to be the case at the moment.
"I will have to look at it - but that's certainly something I won't be doing now, I will be doing it at the end of the season." said Crouch.
"If I want to have any aspirations of playing for England, or furthering my career, then I have to be playing - and that doesn't seem to be the case at the moment.
"I will have to look at it - but that's certainly something I won't be doing now, I will be doing it at the end of the season." said Crouch.
Crouch's height at 6'7" has meant that his role for Liverpool and England has largely been that of an impact substitute where his aerial ability can be used to threaten tiring opposition. However, long ball tactics would often have to be used in order to exploit his aerial ability and height advantage and that hasn't worked out as much as Liverpool or England would have liked in the past.
Although he possesses fantastic technique with the ball on the ground for such a tall player, he lacks the goal scoring prowess and track record of players such as Liverpool's Spanish striker Fernando Torres and Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen for England.
Having had just seven Premier League starts this season, you can't blame him from wanting to leave in search of more regular football but in reality, would he make it at any of the other big clubs i.e. Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea etc.?
You'd be hard pressed to say yes and given how many of the players at the smaller clubs moan about a lack of exposure to European football thus harming their selection for the national team, Crouch should actually remain at Anfield if he really harbours aspirations of featuring for England in the future.
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