Jarrod Bowen’s international career is surely ended following his omission from Thomas Tuchel’s England squad for the up and coming Nations League Fixtures.
Whilst there was an outside chance of Bowen, 29, being selected following his omission from the World Cup squad last summer – largely based on his early season form – Tuchel has stuck with convention and not selected a player from the second division.
Which seems a pity, but the price Bowen probably knew he’d pay for sticking with West Ham following relegation.
On the positive side, no less than four of West Ham’s first team squad have been selected for England’s under 20 group, as confirmed by the club web site:
“Four young Hammers have been included in the England U20s squad for a U20 Euro Elite League triple-header.
Airidas Golambeckis, Finlay Herrick, Ezra Mayers and Divine Mukasa have all been named in the Young Lions’ squad by new England U20s head coach Darren Moore.”
All four have played first team football for West Ham this season: The call ups probably reflect the enhanced opportunities the quartet have seen following the Hammers relegation.
Had West Ham remained in the top tier it would seem unlikely that the four would have seen enough game time to warrant selection – so every cloud does, indeed, appear to have a silver lining: Unless you happen to be Jarrod Bowen, whose 22 caps and one solitary goal in an England shirt could well conclude an international career spent almost permanently playing fiddle to Bukayo Saka. More’s the pity.
Not surprised the tuppeny Wilfred Brambles didn’t pick him, he is probably too old now.
England’s loss is our gain as he will have a chance now to recover with a warm weather break or some lighter training.
Didn’t get to see the game earlier hopefully all the players came through unscathed a point isn’t too bad from 2-0 down.
If i was Nuno i wouldn’t let the youngsters go. Being coached by Darren Moore for a fortnight could set their development back years
If i was Nuno I’d withdraw the 4 youngstets from the England squad. A fortnight being coached by zDarren Moore could set their development back by years
Martin, why is it ended? He currently sits in the Championship, along with West Ham! It is never normal for a championship player to be selected to play for the England set up unless we have nobody of that position playing in the Premier or similar leagues across the world, Tuchel has to be seen to be taking the best of the Premier/sim leagues prior to coming to the Championship, yes we all know Bowen is of the class to play consistently for England, but do not say his International career is over until we again play Prem League and he then isn’t selected for the England camp again, then you can say his England career is over
Tuchel didn’t use him when he was there I personally do not think it has anything to do with Bowen but it’s about West Ham
Tuchel didn’t use him when he was there I personally do not think it has anything to do with Bowen but it’s about West Ham Tuchel is just a snob