Villa Should Have Kept Peter Crouch

Gareth Barry has criticised David O’Leary’s decision to sell Peter Crouch to Southampton.

Villa made a massive loss on the now England striker only for Southampton to sell him on at a massive profit. Lets hope those days are now behind us.

Barry told Sky:

‘Was it wrong to get rid of Peter Crouch? Yes. When you look at it now, definitely. What he has gone on to achieve is something special.’ Adding ‘He has dropped down a level (at Southampton) and bounced back to be a top England striker. It says a great deal about his character. I always felt during Crouchy’s time at Villa, when he got his chance he did pretty well for us. His goalscoring record wasn’t always prolific but his size and his ability caused teams problems.’

‘It was very unfortunate for us that we let him go. I remember he scored twice at Leicester when we won 5-0 and was then left out for the next game. That summed up his time with us.’