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Peter Crouch bragged “beautiful” woman at hotel liked him - but she was team-mate’s Mrs
Liverpool striker Peter Crouch has explained the hilarious story of how he told his team-mates of a hotel receptionist he thought liked him, only for her to be Xabi Alonso's partner.After moving to Liverpool from Southampton for £9.5million in the summer of 2005, Crouch was staying at the Hope Street Hotel where a receptionist had caught his eye.However, after telling his team-mates about the woman it was soon revealed that she was Spanish midfielder Alonso's long-term partner, Nagore Aranburu.She was working at the hotel in an attempt to improve her English skills after Alonso had joined the club a year earlier from Real Sociedad.Writing in his Daily Mail column in 2018, Crouch explained: "On signing for Liverpool, I stayed at the Hope