‘Unbelievable’: Peter Crouch says he never saw £30m player give the ball away when he was at Tottenham
Peter Crouch played with some absolutely incredible players during his career. Crouch was lucky enough to play with the likes of Steven Gerrard and Fernando...
Peter Crouch played with some absolutely incredible players during his career.
Crouch was lucky enough to play with the likes of Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres during his time at Liverpool, while he played alongside players such as Gareth Bale and Rafael van der Vaart at Tottenham.
Speaking to SportBible on TikTok, Crouch has been building his ultimate XI of players he played with.
Crouch, inevitably, picked Luka Modric in his team, and he was full of praise for the £30m man.
Peter Crouch says Luka Modric never lost the ball at Tottenham
Crouch spoke incredibly highly of Modric, naming him as one of the best midfielders he ever played with.
Crouch spoke in glowing terms about the Real Madrid star, going as far as to claim he never lost the ball at Tottenham, not even in training.
“I have lots of fantastic players I played with, but Luka Modric is the man going in,” Crouch said.
“I never saw him give the ball away, literally the entire time I was at Tottenham, and I’m talking about in training as well. He just had these nake hips and he’d get out of situations.
“He’d beat two or three men and you’d think ‘how has he done that. An unbelievable passer of the ball. Luka Modric ran football matches, he wasn’t a box-to-box midfielder, but an absolute genius of a footballer and one of the best lads you’d meet.
What has Jermain Defoe said about Luka Modric?
Crouch isn’t the only former Spurs striker to have spoken about Modric in these terms.
Indeed, Crouch’s former strike partner, Jermain Defoe, has also spoken about Modric in glowing terms.
“See when I played with Luka at Tottenham, even then you look on and think, you could go on and win the Ballon d’Or,” Defoe said.
“You know when you see players and they’re just so silky if that makes sense? It was effortless, he could just handle the ball anywhere on the pitch and the pressure.
“It always felt like he had time, that stepover, he always used to use the outside of his right foot. When you saw Luka pass it, he always used the outside of his right foot.”
Modric will go down in history as one of the greatest midfielders of all-time, he managed to win a Ballon d’Or in the Lionel Messi era, and he’s a six-time Champions League winner.
Modric will go down in history for his exploits at Real Madrid, but we shouldn’t forget that he was also absolutely incredible at Tottenham too.
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