In the last week of July Swansea City rejected £12m plus Jonjo Shelvey on loan offer by Liverpool for their 22 year old midfielder Joe Allen. A couple of weeks later, Liverpool have raised the offer to meet with Swansea’s demand of £15m.
This is the second signing of the Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers (after Fabio Borini). Allen’s weekly wages are said to be increased three times by Liverpool to a £45k-a-week deal with a £2m signing-on fee.
Rodgers and Allen were only separated for a couple of months as Rodgers helped to nurture the 22 year old midfielder in the Swansea academy into an accomplished deep-lying playmaker. Something that Liverpool will find very useful. He will form a three-man midfield at the Merseyside club with Steven Gerrard and Lucas Leiva.
It will be seen if Allen is going to fill the hole left behind by the Spaniard Xabi Alonso when he left for Real Madrid in 2009. Moreover in the last few transfer windows, Liverpool have lost a few key midfielders to other clubs like Yossi Benayoun and Javier Mascherano in 2010 and Ryan Babel in 2011.
Swansea are looking for a replacement for Allen but Bolton are not complying with their £5m offer for Mark Davies. Either they will have to meet the Wanderers’ demand of £6m or they will have to look elsewhere.
Topics: English Premier League, Football Transfers, Liverpool, Swansea
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