{"id":598487,"date":"2021-08-07T08:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=598487"},"modified":"2021-08-07T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T12:49:12","slug":"jamie-bowden-oldham-athletic-tottenham-hotspur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/07\/jamie-bowden-oldham-athletic-tottenham-hotspur\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Bowden Joins Oldham Athletic on Loan From Tottenham Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/03\/08\/oldham-athletic-keith-curle\/\" target=\"_self\">Oldham Athletic<\/a> have signed young midfielder Jamie Bowden on a season-long loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/07\/tottenham-hotspur-short-term-future\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Jamie Bowden Joins Oldham Athletic on Season-Long Loan<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u270d\ufe0f The first one through the door today!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc4b Welcome to Latics, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamiebowden17?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jamiebowden17<\/a> who joins on loan from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@SpursOfficial<\/a> for the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/oafc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#oafc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oldham Athletic (@OfficialOAFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialOAFC\/status\/1423924395945467905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Looking to Gain First-Team Experience<\/h3>\n<p>Bowden, a Republic of Ireland U19 international, makes the step down the football pyramid to Oldham in League Two in order to bolster his first team experience.<\/p>\n<p>He spent pre-season with Spurs\u2019 senior team under Nuno Espirito Santo and appeared for 26 minutes in a friendly against Leyton Orient in July.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old midfielder spent the majority of the 2020\/21 campaign in Tottenham\u2019s U23 side, but has also spent some time around the senior team in training. For the youth team last season, Bowden made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transfermarkt.co.uk\/jamie-bowden\/leistungsdaten\/spieler\/504051\/plus\/0?saison=2020\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15 appearances while scoring twice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He featured on Spurs team sheet for the first time in February, after being named on the bench for a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/02\/18\/gareth-bale-and-dele-alli-class-see-tottenham-hotspur-brush-aside-wolfsberger-ac\/\" target=\"_self\">Europa League round of 32 fixture against Austrian outfit Wolfsberger<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<p>Bowden will wear the number 18 shirt at Boundary Park.<\/p>\n<h3>What Was Said?<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking on his new loan signing, Oldham manager Keith Curle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oldhamathletic.co.uk\/news\/2021\/august2\/06082021-jamie-bowden\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>: \u201cSince he came on Monday morning he\u2019s trained with us as a group and we can see why he\u2019s come with great references and why his club rate him so highly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s extremely confident and comfortable on the ball and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll make the most of this opportunity. It\u2019s a brand new challenge and he knows how important he could potentially be to this team. He just needs to keep working hard and put into practice all the experiences he\u2019s already had at a very young age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oldham kick off their 2021\/22 campaign by hosting last season\u2019s play-off finalists Newport County at Boundary Park this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"IiWKY1_xRa5OaR-XjQYsTg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1330993822\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'IiWKY1_xRa5OaR-XjQYsTg',sig:'eBwOt4vFhtpQJ6zuK3V6jnilnHYQKcj6aOVt6aASUOM=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1330993822',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oldham Athletic have signed young midfielder Jamie Bowden on a season-long loan from Tottenham Hotspur. Jamie Bowden Joins Oldham Athletic on Season-Long Loan \u270d\ufe0f The first one through the door today! \ud83d\udc4b Welcome to Latics, @jamiebowden17 who joins on loan from @SpursOfficial for the season. #oafc \u2014 Oldham Athletic (@OfficialOAFC) August 7, 2021 Looking to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3281,"featured_media":598498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30,24,28],"tags":[4383,400],"class_list":["post-598487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league12","category-news","category-tottenham","category-transfers","tag-jamie-bowden","tag-oldham-athletic"],"modified_by":"Ben Robinson, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}