{"id":572300,"date":"2026-05-08T04:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:01:10","slug":"jurgen-klopp-has-already-approved-of-michael-owens-mohamed-salah-replacement-at-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/572300\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurgen Klopp has already approved of Michael Owen’s Mohamed Salah replacement at Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Liverpool striker Michael Owen has highlighted West Ham United’s Jarrod Bowen as a potential successor to Mohamed Salah at Anfield\"WOLVERHAMPTON,<\/p>\n

Michael Owen has named who he’d like to see replace Mohamed Salah at Liverpool (Image: James Gill – Danehouse, Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Michael Owen has identified West Ham United’s Jarrod Bowen as the ideal player to succeed Mohamed Salah<\/a> at Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Salah will leave the Reds after nine glittering years at the end of this month after announcing in March that this season would be his last the club<\/a>, who are now assessing the market ahead of signing at least one forward player in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n

Yan Diomande, of RB Leipzig, is someone who is being tracked while Juventus winger Francisco Conceicao has also been named in connection with a move to Anfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Robbie Fowler delivers Mohamed Salah verdict before Liverpool farewell as injury hopes rise<\/a>READ MORE: Alexander Isak, Alisson and Mohamed Salah miss Liverpool training as new absence sparks fears<\/a><\/p>\n

But Owen, who was top scorer in the Liverpool side that won the UEFA Cup, FA Cup<\/a> and League Cup<\/a> 25 years ago under Gerard Houllier, feels West Ham wideman Bowen is the ideal solution.<\/p>\n

“I have said that to a couple of my mates the other day. I said, if I had one player,” Owen told talkSPORT. \u201cNow, obviously, Jarrod Bowen\u2019s a legend of a player, West Ham, you know, adore the man, and rightly so.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, if West Ham went down, he would fit for me. I think he\u2019s absolutely brilliant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky enough to do like a striking masterclass for a TV show we did last season with him, and I couldn\u2019t believe it. Honestly, left foot, right foot, bang, bang, corners, pace. I mean, a real top finisher.”<\/p>\n

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Owen’s praise for Brown echoes the warm words previously shared by Jurgen Klopp<\/a>, who when he was in charge of the Reds, was never shy about voicing his appreciation for Bowen.<\/p>\n

Before a Carabao Cup<\/a> encounter between the clubs in December 2023, Klopp labelled the England international as “probably my favourite player besides my players.”<\/p>\n

The comments came after the former Liverpool boss had sung Bowen’s praises back in November 2021, when he said: “I like Bowen a lot. He made his way up from Hull (City) and took not too long to get there, to show exactly what kind of player he can be in the Premier League<\/a> as well.”<\/p>\n

Bowen is West Ham’s captain and is under contract until 2030. That and his age may put Liverpool off from making a move for the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n

However, he could be available at a cheaper price if the Hammers, who are currently third from bottom in the Premier League, go down.<\/p>\n

And Owen added: \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

Liverpool return to action when they host Chelsea at Anfield on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Liverpool striker Michael Owen has highlighted West Ham United’s Jarrod Bowen as a potential successor to Mohamed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,2629,134,2180,32977,2227,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-572300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-jurgen-klopp","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-transfer-news","tag-michael-owen","tag-mohamed-salah","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}