CLASSIC CLIPS | What’s In a Premier League Striker’s Contact? Crouchy On The REALITY Of Goal Bonuses

That Peter Crouch Podcast

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Sports, Football

4.4 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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FROM THE VAULT: In this clip, Crouchy dives into the details of his contract during his time at Stoke City, revealing the realities behind goal bonuses in top-flight football.

Crouch breaks down a clause that rewarded him for hitting double figures in a season, and reflects on the pressure, mentality, and decision-making that comes with it — including whether players ever act selfishly in pursuit of financial incentives. He opens up on dressing room dynamics, the psychology of strikers in front of goal, and why he insists money was never his primary motivation on the pitch.

The conversation also expands into how modern football has changed, with astronomical wages and bonuses potentially shifting player motivations, as well as a hilarious debate on whether defenders deserve bonuses at all — and why football contracts might be more complicated than they seem.

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0:00.0	Schedule 2, Clause 3B. Do you remember it? Yeah. Actually, I do know. This is a clause that you do know about. Right. So, during the terms of this contract, the player will be paid a goal bonus. In each season, he scores 10 or more Premier League goals. Such payment will be payable on the 28th of June. Following the end of season, the player qualifies for the bonus. A club like Stoke, you know, like that, anyone in double figures really, like the way we played, it's a decent season, you know, like we're seeing stupid numbers now, you know, like people banging in goals for fun. But at Stoke at that time, listen, there was so many top teams. And we finished in the top half,. That is a successful season. If you're leading goal scorer against double figures, he's done well.
0:43.2	As soon as you've signed that contract and this clause goes in, are you straight away training
0:47.6	ground showing the gaffer that you can take penalties? Yeah, but that's what I, you know,
0:50.7	that was never really my, there are players obviously 100% did that, you know, I didn't really, I signed this and I thought, you know, I'll get to 10, I back myself, but I never, it was never really at the detriment, I was never greedy, it never crossed my mind once when I was playing. I know there are players out of there, players that I played with that did think about that, 100%. But I can't say, I'd hand on heart and genuinely say that I didn't. And I didn't take a lot penalties, you know, so I could have maybe sneaked in there a couple times more, but it was, it's not something like, I never thought about my contract or how much money I was earning at any point on a football pitch ever. Nine goals. Last game of the season.
1:30.6	Stoker in 13th place.
1:28.1	If they win, they go, or how much money I was earning at any point on a football pitch ever. Nine goals. Last game of the season.
1:30.6	Stoker in 13th place.
1:32.0	If they win, they go to 12.
1:33.6	Which I'll look up in a minute.
1:34.0	Yeah.
1:35.7	You have a teammate square of you.
1:36.8	This is a tapping.
1:38.8	And Altovich is waiting for the tapping.
1:40.6	You're going for goal.
1:42.7	What scenario? I am going to go for goal. What scenario.
1:46.9	I am going to go for goal, yeah.
1:50.8	But not for any other reason, not for any other reason,
1:53.4	then I want to score on the last day of the season.
1:57.5	And, yeah, I'm selfish in front of the goal.
1:58.3	I think you have to be.
2:02.4	I'd take my chances on me scoring.
2:06.2	So you bag the goal, 10th the season, Stoker in 12th, everyone's dead up in the squad.
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