Roy Keane forced Peter Crouch to sell Aston Martin supercar for £25k loss

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Peter Crouch recounted how Roy Keane's intervention forced him to sell his Aston Martin - despite the Irishman not saying a single word to him. The former footballer became a supercar owner in 2005 after earning a £7million move to then-reigning Champions League winners Liverpool from Southampton.

In the same year Crouch made his England debut, the ex-striker decided to splurge on a luxury car to celebrate his new success in his footballing career at just 24 years of age.

However, his association with the Aston Martin vehicle was extremely short-lived as he sold the car just days after buying it, after a brief interaction with Manchester United legend Keane at a set of traffic lights.

Discussing the moment on his The Therapy Crouch podcast, which he co-hosts with wife Abbey Clancy, the pundit admitted a solitary look from Keane was enough for him to part ways with the car.

He said: "I bought an Aston Martin when I was kind of playing for Liverpool. 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**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**t. 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." To add insult to injury, Crouch revealed that despite owning the car for just days, he lost a whopping £25,000 on the sale.

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"I've never felt smaller in all my life," he said in 2020 when talking about Keane's reaction. "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."

Clancy, who has been married to Crouch since 2011 and shares four children with him, reacted to the story as she added: "You’re not a flashy person who is really obsessed with cars. My favourite car Pete bought me, a vintage 1986 Mercedes convertible for my 30th birthday. That’s when you loved me."

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It may have been a whirlwind summer for Crouch 20 years ago, but he had a less-than-stellar start to life at Anfield. It took the ex-striker 19 games to score his first goal for the Reds, but he did go on to become a fan favourite in Merseyside as he racked up 42 goals and 23 assists in 135 games for the club.

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