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As far as the topic of individual players being key figures at their football club's goes, it is unlikely you find many players quite as important to their particular club, as Jarrod Bowen is to Hull City right now.

Having scored 22 Championship goals during the 2018/19 campaign to help the Tigers overcome their early-season struggles and secure a comfortable mid-table position last year, the striker has started the new footballing calendar in a similarly rich vein of form.

With five goals and two assists in Hull's 12 league games so far, there is no doubt that Bowen will once again be a pivotal figure around which the club will once again be looking to build their campaign.

But while the pleasure of watching Bowen in a Hull shirt will surely not have abated for those Tigers fans, it is hard not to feel that there will be a growing sense of concern around the KCOM Stadium, about the influential attacker's long term future at the club.

During the summer transfer window, Bowen was linked with a move to several Premier League clubs, including Tottenham, Arsenal and Newcastle - the latter of whom are now managed by the man who first brought Bowen to Hull: Steve Bruce.

Considering the level of interest there is in Bowen, and the fact that his contract with Hull is set to expire at the end of this season, you could forgive Hull fans for thinking the worst with the January transfer window slowly starting to move into view.

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Not only does that combination of his contract situation and the level of interest mean it may have been difficult for Hull to reject any offers for Bowen in January - lest they lose him for nothing the following summer - but the impact his departure could have on the side would surely be a significant one.

When you look at the fact that only two other players have scored more than once for Hull in the league this season, after more than a quarter of the campaign, there can be no doubt that Bowen would be a big loss for a Tigers side who are stumbling somewhat in 19th as it is.

Now however, it appears as though Hull have been handed the perfect opportunity to lay down a statement of intent with regards to their key man.

Speaking about his future recently, Bowen admitted that he believes his future is out of his hands, but that he is loving life at the KCOM Stadium, suggesting that he would be happy for the club to activate the option of extending his contract by a further year.

Given the situation that Hull find themselves in here, you feel that the club must surely respond to these comments by doing exactly that.

Not only would activating that clause go some way to securing Bowen's future at the club, but it would ensure that, were he to leave the club at any point in the next 12 months, Hull would be in a better position to negotiate a more sizeable fee for the winger, although you feel the latter aspect of that is not something Tigers fans will want to consider.

Were Hull to extend Bowen's contract, it would surely have to be with a view to keeping him at the club, given the clear importance he has to that side, and the part you feel he would have to play in any climb back up the division that the Tigers may make.

You feel therefore, that a failure to take advantage of Bowen's comments, would not exactly reflect well on the club's hierarchy in the eyes of the fans, given the willingness to allow their best player to leave - particularly after he had stated he is happy to stay at the club - would imply that those calling the shots are happy to take the money and run not very far when where Hull currently are in the Championship table.

Given there has already some degree of tension between the fans and powers that be at the club, that is a situation you imagine everybody would want to avoid.

It seems therefore that the choice over whether or not to extend Bowen's contract is not only a big decision to make, but also an easy one.