Allen has laughed off suggestions that his job at Leicester is under threat, but the danger is real enough.
There was a suggestion last week that the pair had fallen out over the collapse of Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink's proposed move to the Walkers Stadium.
Allen: "People will start rumours off and try to invent stories and it is just more rubbish. After one defeat, one win and one draw that made me laugh.
"There has been a lot of talk and I don't usually comment on it but there has been innuendo and untruths told which are out of order.
"I suppose when you are in the heat of the kitchen, a bigger kitchen than I have been used to, these things happen and I will have to accept that.
"Speculation never puts a dampener on anything I have ever done at my other clubs. Now, with speculation rife, it makes me smile, it doesn't make me upset or worried. I just love coming to work every day.
"People can write what they like and suggest what they like but being an Allen, a famous football family, I have had to put up with a lot and fight my way through it and take it on the chin. It doesn't hurt me at all, it just makes me stronger."