Peter Crouch has opened up on the brutal culture at Liverpool that saw some new signings labelled as 's***' after just one training session.
The former Reds striker discussed the rigidly high standards at Anfield led by club legends Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher, who were not afraid to call players out in front of the whole squad or write them off very early into their Liverpool career.
And Crouch told Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO podcast that Gerrard and Carragher's elite mentality - along with the likes of former Chelsea pair John Terry and Frank Lampard - meant it looked like they did not enjoy playing football.