{"id":941576,"date":"2026-05-06T13:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941576\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T13:06:29","slug":"liverpool-michael-owen-tells-fsg-to-sign-52m-top-finisher-to-replace-salah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941576\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool: Michael Owen tells FSG to sign \u00a352m \u2018top finisher\u2019 to \u2018replace Salah\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Owen has urged Liverpool to raid West Ham United and bring Jarrod Bowen to Anfield as a replacement for Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/mohamed-salah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salah<\/a><\/strong> will leave <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a><\/strong> at the end of the season, and the Premier League club\u2019s owners, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), are on the hunt for a right winger to replace the Egyptian superstar.<\/p>\n<p>Former Liverpool striker <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/michael-owen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Owen<\/a><\/strong> believes that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/jarrod-bowen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bowen<\/a><\/strong> would be \u201cperfect\u201d for the Merseyside club.<\/p>\n<p>The pundit has recounted how the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/west-ham-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Ham United<\/a><\/strong> and England international winger personally impressed him and left him stunned.<\/p>\n<p>Owen said on <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-dC0eRYvGOA\" target=\"_blank\">talkSPORT<\/a> when asked if he would like to see Bowen at Liverpool: \u201cHow do you know?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have said that to a couple of my mates the other day. I said, if I had one player.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/champions-league-2025-26-prize-money-table-arsenal-liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Champions League prize money table calculated as Arsenal winnings skyrocket<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, obviously, Jarrod Bowen\u2019s a legend of a player, West Ham, you know, adore the man, and rightly so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, if West Ham went down, he would fit for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s absolutely brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was lucky enough to do like a striking master class for a TV show we did last season with him, and I couldn\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, left foot, right foot, bang, bang, corners, pace. I mean, a real top finisher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-top-scorers-games-premier-league-big-six-salah-firmino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool top scorers against Big Six: Gakpo level with Gerrard and Suarez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s a brilliant player. I would be taking him to the World Cup, and, as I say, you know, I don\u2019t want to upset West Ham fans, but if they went down, then he would be my idea of somebody to replace Salah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>West Ham stance on selling Jarrod Bowen to Liverpool<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bowen has been on the books of West Ham since January 2020 and is under contract at the London club until the summer of 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old winger has scored 84 goals and given 62 assists in 277 matches in all competitions for the Hammers so far in his career.<\/p>\n<p>West Ham are third from bottom in the Premier League table at the moment, and there are suggestions that Bowen could be gone from the London club should they get relegated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-transfer-news-jarrod-bowen-move-west-ham-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Liverpool have been credited with interest in Bowen<\/strong><\/a>, but the Hammers will not be easy to negotiate a deal for the winger.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report in TEAMtalk on April 30, West Ham have \u2018no intention\u2019 of selling Bowen this summer, if they secure their Premier League status for next season.<\/p>\n<p>On February 27, the reliable news outlet <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teamtalk.com\/news\/jarrod-bowen-manchester-united-tottenham-hotspur-west-ham\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that West Ham value Bowen at \u20ac60million (\u00a352m).<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/next-liverpool-manager-arne-slot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who will be the next manager of Liverpool after Arne Slot exit?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Owen has urged Liverpool to raid West Ham United and bring Jarrod Bowen to Anfield as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4100],"tags":[94,163,225,15486,179,2719,12,101,79,16,15,11505],"class_list":["post-941576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-front-page","tag-home-page","tag-jarrod-bowen","tag-liverpool","tag-michael-owen","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-west-ham-united"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116527784763913186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}