West Ham fans have taken to Twitter to react after the signing of Jarrod Bowen was announced on deadline day.
The 23-year-old arrives from Hull City in a deal worth over £20m according to the BBC, and he has signed a five-and-a-half year contract with the Hammers.
It means that Bowen’s six-year stint with the Tigers has come to an end, after he joined them from Hereford United back in 2014 – in total, the Englishman scored 54 goals in 131 games for the club, while also registering 14 assists.
West Ham’s latest arrival has already scored 17 goals in the current campaign, with 16 of those coming in the Championship while he has also grabbed one in the Carabao Cup – he has seven assists to his name as well.
His impressive haul comes after he notched 22 Championship goals last term – no player in England’s second tier has been involved in more goals than Bowen since the start of the 2017/18 campaign, in which time he has netted 52 goals and tallied up 12 assists according to Opta.
Let’s see how the West Ham fans on Twitter reacted to his arrival…
To kick off the reaction, these three West Ham fans couldn’t contain their happiness at finding out that the deal had been completed.
Jackson said that it was a “huge signing” before calling Bowen a “great player”.
Cory then added that he was “so made up with this” before Tommy said he “can’t understate how happy” he was with the signing of the prolific Championship marksman – he then made the bold prediction that the forward is “gonna score lots of goals for us”.
Elsewhere, Jay decided to comment on the announcement video specifically, saying “so this is what you were doing while we were waiting all night” – it simply had to be done for a marquee signing like this one, Jay.
Meanwhile, Asad believes that Bowen’s arrival will get West Ham into Europe. Ambitious thinking considering West Ham are currently battling relegation.
Lastly, Nath was just shocked that the Hammers managed to pull the transfer off, saying that he “can’t believe we actually got it done”.
In fairness, the Hammers did leave this one very late, and at one point looked like they were struggling to agree personal terms with the striker – a ‘relegation clause’ was believed to be holding up the deal.
Calling all transfer experts! How much did each of these Deadline Day signings cost?
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