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Sell him

Swap him

Give him away

Put him on eBay.... Free delivery

More like br will swap him for shelvey plus cash

If Allen cost 6/7m... His true value... I wud say keep him... Ideal squad player...
Lfc can't have a 15m player on the bench most of the season

Funds from Allen sale shud b put towards signing quality players for starting 11

The fact that Liverpool overpaid for Allen does not mean that we should sell him? We can afford to have a player worth 6/7 mil on the bench because that is probably all we would get for him. We could not afford to have the likes of Carroll on the bench as we were able to get 15mil for him despite overpaying massively.

If we were forced to sell him because we needed the funds to buy a better player so be it but I think he has value as a squad player

He's worth keeping for at least a run in the team,although I'm not convinced,you never know.

we would only be able to sell him for £6-7m

no matter what we do with him we shifted shelvey out the door too quickly ..fans included.

Selling Allen for 6/7m

And using that money to sign a top quality mid player who will cost 15/25m, who will go straight into our starting 11

Am all for selling Allen and Lucas

Rafa wud sign Lucas for 10m in jan 2014

Selling two average players and signing 1 top quality mid player
Makes sense to me

until that 1 player picks up an injury and then we have to play an even worse player than the two we sold

Exactly, we should stop this selling spree as we have a very thin squad. Yes, we should sell anybody who we are sure that they will never add anything, otherwise, they should be squad players until they can be considered first teamers.

When I see both Shelvey and Downing, though they were not great, I am sure they could do a decent squad job, Shelvey is among the best Swansea players today and we do not have a left footed winger right now. We sold those 2 and replaced them with Alberto and Aspas, was that a good business, I doubt it. We could have kept both and use the Aspas, Alberto and Ilori money to buy a good first team midfielder. Ok, the salary bill would have gone a bit higher, but not by much. If you don't take some risks, don't expect CL reward FSG.

sell him, then buy him back, just so we can sell him again.

Yeah that’s right derek, the squad’s too thin as it is. We need a couple of top class signings not sales.
However Joe Allen should not be considered a replacement for Lucas, way too light, too quiet, and not nearly creative or positive enough for that position. We need A Roy Keane type of player for that position, the type who will work box to box and drive the players on, and also to lead by example. We don’t get that from Lucas, and we certainly won’t get it from Allen.
Regarding the op question; I would give Allen another season as I feel we haven’t seen enough to be definitive just yet.