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James Barker

Mon 13 April 2026 16:10, UK

Jarrod Bowen has only Mohamed Salah and Bruno Fernandes for company in Premier League goal involvements over the last six seasons, but the West Ham United star still struggles to get his flowers.

Now 29-years old, Bowen is undoubtedly one of West Ham’s all-time greatest signings, and indeed, players.

Poached from Hull City for a reported fee of just over £20million in January 2020, the versatile forward has done nothing but repay that transfer fee untold times over as a Hammer.

Indeed, he’s only ever failed to score less than double-digit goals in a full single season on one occasion as a West Ham player, and that was in his debut campaign of 2020-21.

And, with just six games to play this season, West Ham will once again be fearing where they would be without him, and the answer to that is probably fairly obvious: the Championship.

How Jarrod Bowen rivals Mohamed Salah and Bruno Fernandes

West Ham could be set to lose Bowen this summer, and that will almost certainly be the case if Nuno Espirito Santo‘s side end up being relegated.

His numbers this season have once again proven that there aren’t many better forwards in the Premier League than him, but for whatever reason, he never seems to get the respect he deserves outside the London Stadium.

Remarkably, even despite West Ham’s struggles in the league this season, Bowen has still, somehow, been able to produce eight goals and eight assists from 32 games.

Only Erling Haaland, Fernandes, Igor Thiago, Joao Pedro and Antoine Semenyo have more combined league goal contributions than West Ham’s number 20 this season.

If that wasn’t enough to show just how good and underrated Bowen is, as detailed in a report from Sky Sports, he, alongside only Liverpool’s Salah and Man United’s Fernandes, have registered over 10 goal involvements in each of the last six top-flight seasons.

And incredibly, if Bowen can find four more goal contributions in the final six games of the season, then he will join Haaland as the only player to hit 20 goal involvements in each of the last three Premier League campaigns.

Bowen isn’t even a guarantee to make the World Cup

Those stats are quite simply unbelievable, especially when you consider he’s done all of that playing for West Ham teams that have routinely been mid-table, with only a few seasons spent closer to the top and bottom ends of the division.

And yet, despite all of that, he’s a player who isn’t even nailed on to make England’s World Cup squad this summer. How ridiculous is that?

Indeed, Thomas Tuchel only gave him just over half an hour against Japan and under an hour against Uruguay in the March internationals.

So yes, whilst of course there is serious talent to choose from in attack, based on form and the crazy goal contribution numbers he’s consistently put up for West Ham, Bowen shouldn’t just be in the Three Lions team, he should be starting.

Put it this way, if he was putting up the same numbers he is for West Ham at anyone of the so-called ‘big six’ in the Premier League, would he be in Tuchel’s starting XI? Absolutely he would.