Don't see the problem with Joe Allen, very good player. Gives 100%, good lad etc.
OK probably a few better players in the squad, but he is an experienced international, whom plays for wales who btw just beat the no.1 rated team in the world Belgium, wales are 1 spot behind ENgerlund in the fifa rankings now, so he is probably on a par with most england midfielders.
Bit of snobbery I think form some about Joe Allen, Ive seen him have good & bad games just like most players, but always puts the effort in.
SDuring some of the terrible games last season I remember Joe being 1 of the decent performers in quite a few games, then seeing him get slaughtere on twitter etc. sometimes think folk watch different games.
All well and good giving 100% but you have to have some quality to go with it. I'm sure Rickey Gervais could give 100% but he isn't going to win us games by doing that. Phil Jones is a regular for Ingerland now but he isn't anywhere good enough. International football is picked on names now rather than actual ability. If Allen played for Belgium, Spain, Argentina or somebody else that has a lot of top players then I doubt he'd be in the team but without too much disrespect to Wales, they aren't exactly producing top class players other than the odd one or two. Also being 1 place behind Ingerland isn't anything massive because in all honesty, there probably isn't much difference in terms of quality between the two teams now.
Allen isn't the worst player in the world, not by any means but he certainly isn't a £15million player or a player that you would want in your team as a regular if you are competing for trophies. But, he does have his advantages. He's a decent enough player to have on the bench if you are trying to see a game out and just keep possession of the ball and waste some time because he will do the short sideways and backwards passes that don't put us in any real danger. Other than that I don't think he is much use; he offers no threat going forward and is massively unreliable defensively; we saw last season how often he got caught out of position or just being beaten far too easily.
Decent player to add depth but that's it. Nothing special but nothing woeful, he's just a run of the mill average player. Certainly wouldn't lose any sleep over him being sold but at the same time there are players that need to go a lot more than what Allen does.
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