Hull City manager Grant McCann has revealed that an offer has been tabled for Jarred Bowen’s contract to be renewed, amid interest from the Premier League.

Jarrod Bowen has started this season as he finished the last one, scoring a bunch of goals for Hull. The Tigers currently sit in 13th place and just five points off the play-offs after 14 games played, so will be definitely hoping for a push for promotion this season if they can put a run of form together.

Bowen has been crucial to Hull’s season so far, playing in every league game and scoring eight goals in the process, and registering two assists.

With Hull City offering Bowen a new contract, we take a look at three things the club must weigh up in the meantime… 

What is his asking price?

It’s quite clear that Hull moved quickly to renew his contract again to ward off any potential interest from Premier League suitors. McCann told the Hull Daily Mail: “I don’t think we’d ever stand in Jarrod’s way. We’d love to keep him here for the next four or five years of course.

“But when you’ve got exciting talent like that then there’s no doubt people will be looking at him.”

Hull are in the position that many second-tier (and lower) clubs find themselves in, and that is weighing up the interest that their star player is receiving for how valuable they are to a better-placed team.

McCann indicated that the club received no firm offers from clubs that required attention in the summer but with Bowen’s form continuing, it will only be a matter of time before the Tigers’ board have to lay down an asking price to either deter interest or get the right value of money for their prized asset.

How long can they keep him?

When the offers inevitably come in for Bowen, Hull will be faced with the dilemma of how long they can keep hold of him for. The contract extension is a very clever move from the club because it at least ties him down for the foreseeable future in a way that makes other clubs have to pay over the odds to sign him.

If Bowen agrees to sign the contract, it shows his commitment to the club, but should a wealthy suitor make their interest known to the forward, it might turn his head in a way that his current club can’t persuade him to stay.

McCann seems to have Bowen’s interest very much as a priority, so if there comes a point where the player feels it is time to move on, the club won’t stand in his way.

How do they go about replacing him?

The key issue with losing a star player is the void left in their absence. A lot of managers build teams around their most important players, and Hull are no exception to this with Bowen.

The difficulty in losing a huge player is that it is very hard to find a like-for-like replacement without paying a ridiculous fee, plus the fact that players of that quality typically have their sights set higher than that club (in a similar way to Bowen).

With Hull knowing that they have to tie down Bowen to stop interest, they must begin to compile a dossier on how to replace him, should a club stump up the fee that Hull end up asking for.