"For me personally it's an honour just to be in the same team as him because he's been such a great player over the years, and obviously with myself being a striker you watch players like him and learn from him," Crouch told the official website.
"It's a pleasure to play with him and if I can learn things from him in training and take parts of his game to mine then it can only benefit myself. He has proved over the years what good movement he has got and what a good finisher he is. Even in training you can see by his finishing just how top quality he is and hopefully I can learn from him."