Peter Crouch once sold dream car for £20,000 loss because of Roy Keane | OneFootball

Former Liverpool striker Peter Crouch once bought an Aston Martin before selling it one week later – taking a £20,000 hit in the process – all because of Roy Keane.

First of all, let’s set the scene.

Crouch completed a dream move to Liverpool in the summer of 2005, signing for the Reds in a deal worth £7 million from Southampton after scoring 16 goals in 33 appearances for the south-coast club.

Crouch was joining the recently-crowned European champions. Around the same time, he was handed his England debut by Sven-Goran Eriksson.

The 6ft 7in striker went on to net 42 goals in 134 appearances for Liverpool over the next three seasons, winning the FA Cup along the way.

He also impressed in an England shirt, bagging 22 goals in 42 matches for his country.

How Roy Keane made Peter Crouch sell his Aston Martin

Like many footballers who make it to the top of their profession, Crouch decided to treat himself to one of the most luxurious cars that money can buy: an Aston Martin.

However, rather than feeling like James Bond while driving around the north-west of England, Crouch admits he never felt comfortable.

And when Manchester United legend Keane spotted him driving it – of all the players to bump into! – the striker was left with no option but to sell.

“I’d always been quite reserved with my car choices but I was playing for Liverpool, I was playing for England and I thought ‘you know, I can make the step up now, I’m worthy’, so I bought an Aston Martin,” Crouch told talkSPORT in 2018.

“I was only four or five days in driving it, I was a little bit embarrassed anyway, I didn’t feel comfortable in it at all. I was driving through Cheshire, pulled up at some lights alongside Roy Keane and he looked at me like I was something on the bottom of his shoe!

“I had the shades on, listening to garage music, thinking I was the man and he firmly let me know I wasn’t the man!

“As he sped off, I looked at myself in the mirror and I sold the car that week. I took about a 20 grand hit on it.”

Let’s be honest: we’d have all done the exact same thing if we were in Crouchy’s shoes.

One glare and a few choice words from Keane was enough to convince Crouch that selling his dream car was the best course of action, even if it meant being £20,000 worse off.