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That's certainly not the impression I get from the Sky Sports article on him:
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...d-name-david-de-gea-in-champions-league-squad
That there says that the cup tie rule does not apply to qualifiers. So that me says regardless of our result he won't be cup tied.
This them reporting on the actual rule change. Seems like some got mixed up in the story you read.
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/24032010/58/champions-league-uefa-relax-rules-cup-tied-players.html
The executive committee has agreed that a player who appears for a club in any of the preliminary rounds of the Champions League or Europa League can play for another team in the competition proper, so long as his original team is eliminated in the preliminary competition.