The reporter reported coldly The Chinese double sister of the former Celtic women's football team will continue to stay in Europe in the new season. Following Shen Menglu's joining the women's Bundesliga midstream team Bayer Leverkusen Women's Football Team, on August 2, Shen Mengyu officially announced that she would join the London City Lion Club in the Women's Championship, striving to gain a firm foothold before attacking the Women's Premier League.

At a time when many Chinese women's football players returning to China one after another, Shen Mengyu made the opposite choice like his former teammate Shen Menglu. For the Chinese women's football team, staying abroad is still a shortcut to improve the strength and experience of players and narrow the gap with the Japanese and South Korean women's football team. Taking Shen Mengyu as an example, in the current situation of insufficient strength, choosing a pragmatic and planned sinking is also the best way to enter the top women's football league in the future.

The Women's Championship is the second tier of women's football in England, founded in 2014 and currently has 11 clubs participating. Among them, there are many women's football teams backed by established clubs in England, such as Newcastle United, Sunderland, Blackburn, Sheffield United, Birmingham, Southampton, Charlton and so on. Founded in 2019, the London City Lionesses Club, which Shen Mengyu joined, is an independent women's football club spun off from Millwall. The London Lionesses have played five seasons in the Women's Championship and are in the upper middle of the pack overall, but they finished 8th last season after a poor performance.

There are as many as 12 foreign players in the London Lionesses team, and Shen Mengyu is currently the only Asian foreign player. It is worth mentioning that the Lioness of the City of London was acquired by Michele Kang, a Korean-American business·man, last year. Michel · Jiang, 65, is a well-known investor in women's professional soccer and sports entities, having acquired Washington Spirit Club in the North American Women's Soccer League and Lyon Women's Soccer in France. She is a rare female investor in the women's football world, and the goal of buying London City Lionesses is to promote to the Women's Premier League, so that the London City Lionesses can at least compete with Chelsea, Tottenham and West Ham United in the United Kingdom capital.

London City Lionesses France coach Phaischer served as Jiangsu Suning and Meizhou Hakka women's football coaches in the Chinese Women's Super League from 2019 to 2022, when Shen Mengyu was still playing in Shanghai Women's Football Team, so the coach is more familiar with Shen Mengyu. He said that Shen Mengyu is young and skilled, and he has made a lot of progress compared to that year. She can play the No. 6 and No. 8 positions in the team, which fully affirms her ability. Prior to coaching the London City Lioness, Physher also coached European women's powerhouse Grand Paris. With such a league and club atmosphere, Shen Mengyu can have the opportunity to fight for more playing time, get real opportunities, and see the hope of entering the Women's Premier League and other European top leagues.

Recently, many foreign players of the Chinese women's football team have returned to China, the most recent ones are Tu Linli, Xie Ting, Tang Jiali and Wuri Gumula. Although Wang Shuang, the number one star of the Chinese women's football team, is still in the Tottenham Hotspur Women's Football Team in the Women's Premier League, she is still working hard to gain a foothold. At the same time, as many as 13 of the 18 members of the Japan women's national Olympic team, which is the only one in Asia, are staying abroad, and two of the alternate players are overseas players, and there are as many as 8 people in the Women's Premier League! Takako Kiyoke, the Golden Boot of the Japan Women's Football League last season, joined Brighton and became club teammates with Mitsukasa. Then striker Minami Tanaka joined the Utah Royals of the North American Women's Football League, goalkeeper Kyo Yamashita and 20-year-old forward forward Aoba Fujino, also announced that they would stay in the United States, and the latter also officially announced that he would join Manchester City. This is not counting the four foreign players who were not selected for the Olympic squad, including defender Saori Takada, midfielder Sugida Kokazu, Narumi Miura, and striker Jun Endo. Even the Korea women's football team has as many as 6 foreign players in the latest squad.

The Chinese women's football team wants to narrow the gap with the Japan women's football team in the short term, and staying abroad is the best choice. Recently, Shen Menglu and Wang Yanwen have joined the women's Bundesliga and the middle and lower reaches of the French Ligue 1 teams Leverkusen and Dijon women's football, and Shen Mengyu joined the London City Lions in the Women's Championship. It's better to get more minutes and experience in these teams than to sit on the bench at the top or to be a regular in a lower-level Europa League and struggle to improve.

To a large extent, the number of foreign players and the quality of the league they play in will determine the future of Chinese women's football.