Jarrod Bowen can’t stop scoring Championship goals for Hull City and a move to the Premier League feels inevitable.
Rapid pace, lethal finishing and the movement of a top level goalscorer, you can certainly see why Hull City’s Jarrod Bowen would be likened to Leicester City’s legendary number nine.
The 22-year-old forward is going from strength to strength on Humberside and, after netting 22 Championship goals last season, he already has six to his name this time around with a one-in-two ratio making him one of the second tier’s most feared marksmen.
And Callum Elder, the left-back who trained alongside the irrepressible Jamie Vardy at Leicester before joining Hull in the summer, is well placed to judge a forward who appears destined to join the former England international in the Premier League before long.
“(Bowen) is one of the most clinical players I’ve ever played with,” Elder told the Hull Daily Mail.
“He doesn’t have many shots but he finds the back of the net time and time again. He’s a joy to play with, he’s so positive. He always wants to beat his man, he always wants to influence the game and I’m really enjoying being one of his team-mates.
“Jamie Vardy is obviously in that category of clinical but Bowen is up there, 100 per cent. Look at Jarrod’s goal on Saturday against the run of play, touch and finish. On Wednesday, another goal with his weaker foot. He is a really impressive player.”
The Express claims that both Newcastle United and Southampton are interested in signing Bowen in January, despite his hefty £20 million price-tag, with The Magpies and The Saints sending scouts to Humberside in the early weeks of the new season.
Newcastle have scored just five goals in nine league matches under Steve Bruce, the joint-lowest in the top flight, while Southampton have been a little over-reliant on Danny Ings of late with Che Adams struggling for form since moving to St Mary’s over the summer. No wonder then that Bowen continues to register on their radar.
As long as he continues to terrorise defenders in the Championship, a move to the top flight feels inevitable.
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