Source: Daily_Mail
As Kitson goes back to Reading, Sportsmail's guide to players who shunned the advice: Never go back
Dave Kitson has returned to Reading after a disastrous spell at Stoke.
He left the Royals in the summer for a record £5.5million switch to the Potteries last summer, but is now heading back south on loan after failing to score in any of his 18 appearances for the Barclays Premier League club.
The 29-year-old may feel at home at the Madejski Stadium, but what about the old adage: 'never go back?'
Here is Sportsmail's guide to the players who returned in triumph and those who wished they had just bought a one-way ticket.
Ian Rush
Ian Rush The Wales striker got the seven-year itch after a wonderful spell at Liverpool from 1980 to 1987 that saw the Reds win four First Division titles, the FA Cup, four League Cups and the European Cup.
Butthings didn't go well for Rush at Juventus and he returned to Anfieldin 1988, becoming Liverpool's all-time leading goal-scorer and winninganother First Division title, two FA Cups and a League Cup beforeleaving in 1995.
Jurgen Klinsmann
Klinsmann joined Spurs in 1994 and scored 29 goals in his first full season as Tottenham came seventh in the Premiership and reached the semi-finalsof the FA Cup.
The Germany international soon shed hisreputation as a diver with one of the most memorable goal celebrationsand was awarded the Football Writers' Player of the Year Award in 1995before heading to Bayern Munich.
In December 1997 Klinsmann was back, saving Spurs from relegation before retiring after the 1998 World Cup.
Peter Crouch
A striker with a memorable goalcelebration for all the wrong reasons, Crouch notched up 19 goals in 39 appearances for Portsmouth during the 2001-2002 season.
In July 2008 Crouch was back on the south coast and has scored eight goalsin 20 Premier League appearances for Tony Adams' side this season.
Frank McAvennie
McAvennie had two spells at West Ham, Celtic and St Mirren but his second stints never reached the heights of his first.
The Scot was part of the 1986 West Ham team that finished third in the First Division, helped, no doubt, by McAvennie's 26 goals.
In 1987 he moved to Celtic, winning the Scottish Premier League and Scottish Cup double, but was back in London the following season toappease his wife and endure relegation with the Hammers.
McAvennie then broke his leg and experienced a second relegation with West Ham before returning to Celtic and finishing his career at St Mirren, the club he had signed for as a teenager.
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Manchester City snapped up Wright-Phillips in 1996 after he was released by Nottingham Forest and made £21m on the player when he was sold to Chelsea in 2005.
But the England international's big move to the capital never quite workedout. Wright-Phillips won the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup butstruggled to secure a first team place.
He moved back to City atthe beginning of this season and has re-established himself in theEngland squad, but the jury's out on whether it was a good move - theworld's richest club find themselves teetering near the the PremierLeague drop zone.
Juninho The dimunitive midfield playmaker proved Brazilians can make it England during three magical spells at Middlesbrough.
His initial signing in 1995 was a major coup for boss Bryan Robson and provided two years of samba fever on Teesside until relegation led to Juninho's transfer to Atletico Madrid.
He returned for a loan spell in the 1999-2000 season before signing again permantly in the summer of 2002.
In his third spell he won the League Cup with Boro and was voted the club's greatest ever lpayer by fans just over a year ago.
The draw to Teesside is so great that he was recently tipped for a return as coach.
