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HULL boss Nigel Adkins insists Jarrod Bowen is going nowhere after the winger’s double helped the red-hot Tigers to a sixth successive win in the Championship.
Bowen (above, scoring from the spot) has interested Premier League clubs and he showed why again with a long-range strike and cool penalty against subdued Sheffield Wednesday.
Substitute Fraizer Campbell then added to the pain for the outclassed Owls, who were on a four-game unbeaten run in the league.
The Tigers were in the relegation zone on December 1, but have rocketed up to 10th. Bowen, 22, has nine goals in eight games and has been a key figure in Hull’s stunning turnaround.
Adkins (right) said: “It’s perfectly clear, in this window no players are going. We want Jarrod and all of the players to go to the highest level.
“The gates are open at our training ground to watch them train and we want them to develop.
“We dominated this game from start to finish and should have scored more.”
Hull are now just four points from the play-off places after their best run of form in 14 years.
Adkins’ men have not conceded a goal in three league games, having won 6-0 against Bolton and 2-0 against Leeds.
Bowen’s first goal arrived just before the interval when he cut inside and unleashed a curling effort from 20 yards.
He doubled his tally with a 52nd-minute penalty, sending Keiren Westwood the wrong way. Chris Martin was brought down by the Wednesday keeper after a brilliant delivery from Kamil Grosicki.
Campbell finished off Wednesday, four minutes after coming on, with an angled effort to punish poor defending.
The striker celebrated by doing press-ups and there was no doubt he looked razor-sharp.
Owls caretaker-manager Steve Agnew said: “It was tough, to say the least. We were never in the game.”