Yet Crouch, who has 25 England caps, intimated his future could well lay elsewhere if he cannot hold down a first-team place.
'I would love to stay, it is a fantastic club and I love everything about it, but I have got to be realistic,' said Crouch, who has just seven Premier League starts this season.
'If I want to have any aspirations of playing for England, or furthering my career, then I have to be playing - and that doesn't seem to be the case at the moment.
'I will have to look at it - but that's certainly something I won't be doing now, I will be doing it at the end of the season.'
Crouch hinted he wants to leave...well,how many better players than him left but regretted...one eg,owen...left for fake madrid saying he wanted to win more trophies but he return to england empty handed...and during the time he was at madrid,we won the champion league...:bsmilie: