Josip Stanisic has revealed he felt ‘sorry’ for parent club Bayern Munich after scoring against Thomas Tuchel’s side in Bayer Leverkusen’s 3-0 win on Saturday.
The 23-year-old is on a season-long loan from Bayern, who he joined as a youth player in 2017 and has become an integral part of Xabi Alonso’s team of title chasers.
Whereas in the Premier League players who are on loan are not permitted to play against their parent clubs, that rule doesn’t apply in the Bundesliga and Stanisic started the weekend crunch clash.
Speaking after the match, he revealed that he was happy to score despite it being against his permanent club and stressed he wants to do his best for Bundesliga leaders Leverkusen.
Josip Stanisic has revealed he felt ‘sorry’ for parent club Bayern Munich after scoring against Thomas Tuchel ‘s side in Bayer Leverkusen’s 3-0 win
Stanisic opened the scoring in the 18th-minute with a tap-in at the back-post and celebrated mutely
‘Even though you’re happy, you also somewhat feel sorry. I didn’t celebrate out of respect’.
‘I wanted to prove it to myself first and foremost. I want to do my best for Bayer Leverkusen this season’.
His comments come after Bayern manager Thomas Tuchel fumed that the attacking full-back was allowed to play in the match that could prove pivotal in the title race.
Bayern boss Thomas Tuchel was unhappy that Stanisic was allowed to play against his side as he is on-loan from them
Bayern needed to win to jump ahead of Leverkusen at the top of the table but slumped to a demolishing defeat that puts serious doubt on their title ambitions.
An aggravated Tuchel hit out at rules on loan players in Germany, stating: ‘In England there’s a nice rule where when you loan a player out, they can’t play against you.
‘For me that makes more sense. The rule unfortunately doesn’t exist in Germany’.
Stanisic, who was born in Munich, has made 20 appearances so far this season while on loan at Leverkusen.
