Joe Allen to Swansea City is a transfer story to keep an eye on this summer.
A reunion with his boyhood club has romantic connotations, but when one also inspects the facts and figures behind a deal, it actually makes a lot of sense. You can read more about that here. His pal and former team-mate, Owain Tudur Jones, has lifted the lid on the details of a transfer, which would see the 32-year-old take a paycut to return to south Wales, something he is willing to do, he believes.
Indeed, Allen had already told his friend that he wanted to head home previously. Allen was at Liverpool at the time and in the January ahead of the Euros in 2016, he wrote an email to his agent asking him to facilitate a move back to Wales. As we all know, it didn't quite work out as planned, with Mark Hughes and Stoke City swooping in for the midfielder.
