Peter Crouch has named his most underrated teammate and it is a player who spent five years at Liverpool.
Crouch played alongside some great players during his three seasons at Liverpool. Players such as Dirk Kuyt and Steven Gerrard instantly come to mind, but there were other exceptional players who were not always given the credit they deserved.
The former England and Liverpool striker has revealed who he believes is the most underrated player out of all his former teammates. He is a player who worked hard to earn himself a move to Anfield and who started career at a non-league level.
Speaking on his podcast, Crouch singled out Steve Finnan as the player that perhaps didn’t get the recognition that he deserved.
“I love this bloke. What a fantastic player, he set me up so many times.
I remember sitting with him when I signed for Liverpool, we were very close. He was at Welling in non-league, then Notts County in division two and division one, Championship at Fulham — won that as well — and then won a Champions League at Liverpool. It’s not been done, that, he’s won at every single level.”
Crouch has not only praised Finnan for how good he was on the pitch, but for what he is like as a person outside of football.
“So humble, such a lovely fella. When I first signed for Liverpool he was my good pal because he was from London and he took me under his wing a little bit. He had just won in Istanbul and he was a solid right-back for Liverpool, very, very underrated.”
Finnan had already won the second, third and fourth tier in England before joining Liverpool and his success only continued after his move.
Between May 2005 and August 2006, he won the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, FA Cup and the Community Shield.
The Irish right-back almost played alongside Crouch for a second time after leaving Espanyol in 2009 to join Portsmouth.
However, Crouch left Portsmouth just four days before Finnan’s arrival in order to rejoin his boyhood club Tottenham Hotspur in a £10 million move.
