{"id":685648,"date":"2026-01-10T00:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685648\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T00:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:53:16","slug":"southampton-sign-birmingham-city-attacker-mcgowan-on-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/685648\/","title":{"rendered":"Southampton sign Birmingham City attacker McGowan on loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Southampton have completed the signing of Birmingham City attacker Tegan McGowan on a loan deal for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n<p>WSL Full-Time were informed of the news via an official club press release from The Saints this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old is a product of the Chelsea academy system. She went on to get her first experience of senior football in a spell with Charlton Athletic. The player joined Birmingham City in summer 2024 and she was a member of the Blues side that were Barclays WSL2 runners-up last term.<\/p>\n<p>McGowan has built some great experience in the second tier in recent years and she will now look to help Southampton climb the table.<\/p>\n<p>After joining Southampton, McGowan said \u201cI\u2019m very happy to be here. I\u2019ve been around the training ground and they have got such good facilities and I\u2019m really excited to be around the girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to play, and I hope [the fans] get to see the best of me over the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The south coast derby] will be such a fun way to start with the girls, and it\u2019s a Saturday night under the lights which is my favourite type of game. I\u2019m excited to see what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McGowan is Southampton\u2019s first signing of the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>        About The Author<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/fawslfulltime.co.uk\/author\/danp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768006396_437_1c70c5312cbbce8781ce26482ab2f2f9e73e142a712b69add1a4f6b885a2f75d.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-150 photo\" height=\"150\" width=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/fawslfulltime.co.uk\/author\/danp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Pentland<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am the editor and owner of the WSL Full-Time brand which I launched in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I am an accredited journalist with the FWA, SJA and AIPS. I have reported from various levels of men\u2019s and women\u2019s elite football since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton have completed the signing of Birmingham City attacker Tegan McGowan on a loan deal for the remainder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[204148,855,12905,748,393,4884,2359,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-685648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-barclays-wsl2","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-birmingham-city","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-southampton","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115868075205245548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}