{"id":807851,"date":"2026-07-17T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807851\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:52:08","slug":"jarrod-bowen-west-ham-captain-to-stay-at-club-in-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/807851\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarrod Bowen: West Ham captain to stay at club in Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking to the Hammers website, external<\/a>, Bowen said: “My main motivation is staying and bringing this club back to the Premier League where we belong.<\/p>\n

“It was only right for me to speak at the right time. Ultimately it [relegation] hurt everyone and it should hurt everyone.<\/p>\n

“I flew out to Prague to meet (club directors) Daniel [Kretinsky] and Jiri [Svarc] and the ambition that I got from them, certainly in terms of the direction the club wants to move in, it interests me a lot. It didn’t take a lot, because this club means a lot to me.<\/p>\n

“For me, when you’re here for a longer amount of time, you gain more affection, you grow into the club more, you grow into your role more and more, and I think that’s what I’ve done.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been here six and a half years and transitioned from a boy to a man and I’ve never tried to hide away from anything.<\/p>\n

“There are things you can do better, but certainly in my character on the pitch and off the pitch, I never try and hide away from anything and shift the blame. <\/p>\n

“I always try and stand up for them and just kind of live my life as captain of West Ham and also as a fan as well.<\/p>\n

“I see myself in years to come as a West Ham fan. So, I always think ‘what would they want as a fan if they got the opportunity to play on the pitch?’. For me, I think I’m like that character as well, so I think that’s the way.”<\/p>\n

Bowen will now continue his pre-season preparations with head coach Nuno Espirito Santo, who confirmed that he will remain at the club<\/a> for the new season back in May.<\/p>\n

After a home clash against Portsmouth in the first round of the Carabao Cup a week prior, West Ham kick off their Championship season away at fellow relegated club Burnley on Sunday, 16 August [16:00 BST]. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to the Hammers website, external, Bowen said: “My main motivation is staying and bringing this club back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-807851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}