Bournemouth star James Hill has been backed to be a future England player following his impressive start to the season.The 24-year-old joined the Cherries in the Championship in 2022 but has had to wait patiently to cement his place in the starting XI.Hill has started all eight Premier League games for Bournemouth this seasonGettyThe south coast outfit have undergone significant changes to their backline in recent seasons after selling a number of top stars.The rise of James Hill at BournemouthDean Huijsen, Illia Zabarnyi, and Milos Kerkez were all sold after the 2024/25 season, in which Hill only made six Premier League starts.However, Bournemouth’s No.5 broke into the team under then-boss Andoni Iraola at the start of the year and hasn’t looked back. The England Under-21 international has taken on increased importance since Marco Rose was appointed at the helm, following the summer exit of Marcos Senesi to Tottenham.Hill has already clocked over 1,000 minutes of game time across three competitions for Bournemouth this term, with 11 starts in total.The ex-Fleetwood Town player played at right-back for the 3-0 win over AC Milan on Thursday, before moving centrally to help his side beat Manchester United by the same scoreline three days later.Future England star?Bournemouth fan Sean messaged talkSPORT Breakfast hosts Jeff Stelling and Ally McCoist on Monday to give a special mention to Hill.It read: “He sat back and watched Huijsen, Zabarnyi and Senesi all leave. But he’s come in and been sensational. Could be an England player in the next few years.”Hill (right) kept clean sheets against Milan and Man United in the same weekGettyBreakfast presenter Stelling replied: “And you know what, Sean? Completely agree. “And not just this week. Whenever I’ve seen James Hill, he has been exceptional.”McCoist continued: “It’s certainly one of the secrets of it, Jeff. Recruitment. The recruitment.“I’ve written down the names of three clubs. Brentford, Brighton and Bournemouth. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.“If you’d ask those clubs 15, 20 years ago where they’d be, again, I mean, they would just have dreamt of being where they are. “They are fantastically run clubs; [they] know what they’re all about. Everybody knows their job.”Hill, who came off the bench in the 4-4 draw last season, played the full 90 minutes on SundayGettyThat sentiment is underlined by Hill, who has been instrumental in stringing together a four-match win streak across the Premier League and in Europe – Bournemouth’s best run since December 2023.And the man himself believes things are starting to click, telling the club’s website after their 3-0 victory over United: “It was a really special performance. Coming here and getting three points is hard for any team.“But for us to come here and keep a clean sheet as well and score the three goals, credit to the whole team, they were brilliant.“They [United] are in a difficult position, but we didn’t focus on that, we focused on putting a good performance in. We focused on ourselves coming into a massive fixture against a team with a lot of quality.“We’ve been really good recently and we’re pleased with our clean sheets recently. We were outstanding to a man.“We have had lots of games recently, but we wouldn’t want it any other way, it’s been an incredible journey.“It was an incredible performance from everybody and a good confidence builder for the team. I am absolutely delighted.“We were unlucky at the start of the season, but things are starting to click under Marco and we have momentum now. It was only a matter of time.”Hill’s partnership with Senesi in the second half of last season helped Bournemouth record an epic unbeaten run under IraolaGettyHill’s sole England U21 cap came in a 5–0 victory away to Kosovo in 2022 alongside players who have made the step up to Thomas Tuchel’s senior squad, including James Trafford and Anthony Gordon.His form, however, is now coinciding with a downturn in performance for fellow English centre-backs, including Marc Guehi.The Manchester City man, who made a howler in a 3-2 defeat to Spain last month, was named among talkSPORT’s Premier League Villains.