Peter Crouch has been linked with a January switch to Manchester City after slipping down the pecking order at Liverpool since the arrivals of Fernando Torres and Andriy Voronin.

But Benitez insists: "People have been talking about Peter Crouch for two months, but he is our player and we don't want to sell him.

"He is a nice boy, a good professional, a good player.

"It is clear that this team now with four strikers creates more competition for places, but I don't have any problems because Crouch is a good player."

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