I watched them when Swansea were at Anfield last year and when we were at the Liberty Stadium on the last day of the season.
Yeah, last season we spent £100 million on average footballers and we look like we want the same type of player this season! Henderson, Adam, Downing and Carroll couldn't handle the step up so why should I believe that Allen and any others can?
Like I have said in all my posts, do you really believe that this type of signing will help us close the gap on Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Utd and City? I don't...
I have a few friends who are lifelong, diehard Swansea fans - their opinion on Allen is that he's a decent player for a side like Swansea. He did well for them in the Championship but appears to struggle a bit with the step up to the premiership - bascially, he's a competent championship player.
They heard on the grapevine, that towards the end of last season another premiership club were sniffing around and were quoted £5m, which they would have been more than happy to take. The rumour going around is that the club in question was Wigan. They, and many others, are very surprised that a club like Liverpool would be looking at him and cannot believe the money being mentioned.
I'm not going to claim that I have watched JA play an awful lot but when I have watched him I've seen nothing special, and certainly nothing to suggest he is worth anywhere near £15m. The only positive is that if he does sign it should mean less games for Henderson.
