Five loan stars who came back to haunt their parent clubs

JOAO CANCELO will the opportunity to prove Pep Guardiola wrong for loaning him out this week.

The Portuguese defender left Man City in January to join Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich.

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Now he is set to face his parent side in the Champions League quarter-final.

Uefa allows loan players to face the parent clubs, which is different to the rules used by the Premier League, which forbids it.

Until 2003 clubs in the division could not loan players from each other.

But in the first season after the rule was changed, Lomana LuaLua scored for loan side Portsmouth against Newcastle.

LuaLua went on to Pompey permanently at the end of the season.

But his goal against the Magpies caused the rule to be changed again, as players were banned from playing against their parent clubs.

Here are four more players that came back to haunt their clubs.

1. Thibaut Courtois

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The Belgian goalkeeper spent three seasons on loan at Atletico Madrid from Chelsea before becoming the first choice at Stamford Bridge.

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During this period, the two sides faced each other in the Champions League, but the Blues had a clause in the deal that would see them be paid a reported £2.5million if Courtois played in either of the matches.

However, the LaLiga side claimed they could not afford the fee and told Uefa that the deal might “might function in such a way as to influence who a club fields in a match is null, void and unenforceable”.

He was therefore allowed to play and put in two solid performances as his side knocked Chelsea out of the competition without the £5m being paid.

2. Philippe Coutinho

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Coutinho struggled to impress when he joined Barcelona from Liverpool and was loaned to Bayern Munich in an effort to shift him off the club’s books.

However, the move came back to bite the Spanish side as he starred for the Bundesliga side when the two clashed in the Champions League.

The Brazilian scored twice and assisted one goal in the club’s 8-2 aggregate thrashing of Barcelona in the 2019-20 season.

3. Fernando Morientes

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Morientes enjoyed great success at Real Madrid, winning the Champions League three times in six seasons.

However, he spent the 2003-04 season on loan at Ligue 1 side Monaco and came against the Spanish giants in the Champions League.

The striker scored in both legs of the quarter-final tie, knocking out his parent side on away goals after a 5-5 scoreline.

4. Kingsley Coman

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The French winger has a remarkable nack of scoring against his former sides.

In 2016, Coman was on loan at Bayern Munich when he came up against his parent side Juventus.

Despite his previous struggles in Serie A, he managed to prove his quality as he set up Thomas Muller to score before scoring an extra-time goal himself.

Four years later, after signing for Bayern permanently, he scored the game’s only goal as they beat his first club PSG in the Champions League final.