Jarrod Bowen has been linked to Newcastle United for as long as I can remember.
Jarrod Bowen looks all but certain to leave West Ham United this summer after their relegation.
Jarrod Bowen claimed to be set to come to Newcastle United by many in the media.
So how likely is this to happen?
With West Ham’s financial situation, it surely means they have to sell their top earner and one of their few players who could command a high transfer fee, whilst you’d also imagine that Jarrod Bowen himself would be wanting to stay in the Premier League.
Even if they had survived on the final day of the season, such is the financial black hole that the Hammers face, they could very well have still willingly wanted to sell the England international.
As for Jarrod Bowen himself, he has been at West Ham for six and a half years now and none of their fans would begrudge him now moving on.
What about from a Newcastle United perspective though?
As I said earlier, Newcastle have been often linked with Jarrod Bowen and no doubt he could and would have been a very good signing back when West Ham paid £20m to Hull in January 2020 for a 24-year-old Bowen.
The idea that Newcastle United will even try and sign Jarrod Bowen in summer 2026…I find it bizarre that anybody believes this in any way. Especially the journalists currently writing reports claiming this to be the case?
A transfer fee of around £50m is usually speculated in these current transfer stories and Jarrod Bowen reported to be on £200,000 a week (£10m a year).
Do the maths.
If say you gave him a five-year contract, that is a £100m deal (transfer fee £50m and £50m wages over five years) for a Jarrod Bowen who turns 30 in December.
Zero chance of this happening.
To commit £100m on a player whose value will only fall and very unlikely you will ever get any return on in terms of future transfer fee…
Imagine if Newcastle United signed Jarrod Bowen and he instantly got injured and ended up not available to play until after he turns 30 in December?
The bottom line is that the journalists are talking garbage and they know it.
Apart from the very first transfer window in January 2022 when in a desperate relegation fight the likes of Burn, Wood and Trippier arrived, these Newcastle United owners and Eddie Howe haven’t paid a transfer fee for a single outfield player over the age of 25, indeed almost all of the outfield players bought in have been 23 or younger.
That is of course with one stand out exception. Yoane Wissa.
As we all know, that signing happened for very unique reasons on deadline day of the summer 2025 transfer window. The Newcastle United owners insisting all summer they would not allow the on-strike Alexander Isak to leave and then doing a complete u-turn and selling him on the very last day of the transfer window. A then 28-year-old Yoane Wissa had been the panic button option for many weeks if all else failed, if Alexander Isak didn’t stay.
On the one hand journalists are universally saying that the plan is for Newcastle United to sign young players this summer, then some of them have the nerve to also claim that NUFC are serious about signing Jarrod Bowen.
You have to laugh.