15 British Players Who Returned To Their Former Clubs

Another graduate from West Ham, Jermaine Defoe is a highly successful predatory striker who's delivered goals at every club he's been at. His time at Tottenham Hotspur between 2004 and 2008 was deadly, hitting home 43 goals in 139 appearances to the delight of the White Hart Lane faithful.

He made his way to Portsmouth in the January transfer window that year and scored 14 times in thirty appearances. By Christmas, however, he realised he'd made a mistake and was back at Spurs exactly a year after he left.

Undeterred he continued his blistering strike rate, hammering home another 46 goals in 135 appearances over the next five years. Defoe maintains the fire at the end of his career that he had at the beginning, and he has now made a second return to a former club, signing for Bournemouth once more, where he spent an impressive loan period in 2000/01 during which he scored 18 goals in 29 appearances.

If Rooney can duplicate anything close to the form that he did on his return home to Spurs, the Everton fans have nothing to worry about.