Some good points and maybe I need to reassess my opinion on him. Sometimes I find it hard to judge a player purely on what he can do......i instantly ask myself what I expect from a £15m player and look around at what other clubs have paid £15m for. Generally, that depresses me though....
Allen does perform a decent enough job for us. He's not as bad as I have made out previously, but he's also not as good as some people are suggesting either. Putting his price tag aside (we KNOW he was overpriced but got stung thanks to the loosely worded agreement between BR & swansea) he's certainly better than a lot of central midfielders we've had in recent years.......henderson, spearing, adam, sissoko (post eye injury), cheyrou, le tallec, diao, biscan, poulsen etc ..
I'll just have to accept that the likes of gerrard, mascherano & hamann don't come along all that often.
UTD paid 18mil for Anderson and Chelsea 18mil for Tiago in recent years and Allen is far better than both of them. Value in the market is subjective. I wish we would pay 50mil for one top striker such as a RVP because goals change games and the fact is for all our great play under BR and even KD our inability to finish games off is a far bigger issue as to whether a player is worth this or that.
