\n The 21 year old versatile attacker arrives from Women\u2019s Super League 2 rivals for the remainder of the campaign, and will go straight into Simon Parker’s squad as an option for Saturday’s south coast derby against Portsmouth.\n<\/p>\n
\n McGowan, a youth international with Wales at under-19s level, started her career in Chelsea’s academy before making her first steps in senior football with Charlton.\n<\/p>\n
\n She impressed at the Addicks before suffering an injury in her first year, but she returned to score five goals in 17 appearances in the 2023\/24 campaign, including two against Saints on the final day of that season.\n<\/p>\n
\n A move to Birmingham materialised in 2024, where she made 17 appearances in the second tier as the Blues’ narrowly missed out on the title and promotion to the WSL in a tightly fought battle with London City Lionesses.\n<\/p>\n
\n With one goal in three appearances this season, McGowan said: “I’m very happy to be here. I’ve been around the training ground and they have got such good facilities and I’m really excited to be around the girls.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’m excited to play, and I hope [the fans] get to see the best of me over the next few months.\n<\/p>\n
\n “[The south coast derby] will be such a fun way to start with the girls, and it’s a Saturday night under the lights, which is my favourite type of game. I’m excited to see what it’s all about.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 21 year old versatile attacker arrives from Women\u2019s Super League 2 rivals for the remainder of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115869505485247608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686210","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=686210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}