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One of Southampton's most confusing transfer decisions of the summer was to sign Manchester City goalkeeper Angus Gunn in a deal worth £13.5m.

Not because he isn't a good player, but because of the fact that they already had Alex McCarthy – who performed brilliantly in 2018 and picked up the club's Player of the Year award despite not making his first Premier League appearance until the end of December 2017.

The 28-year-old played a key role in Saints' survival under Mark Hughes with some crucial saves to help them narrowly avoid relegation to the Championship.

He has begun the current campaign in similarly fine form too – even if his team lie in 16th position in the top flight standings – earning a call-up into Gareth Southgate's England squad for the previous fixtures against Spain and Switzerland and the upcoming UEFA Nations' League matches against Spain and Croatia.

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Despite being so highly-rated Gunn – whose distribution appears to be better than that of Southampton’s current number one – has so far had to settle for starts in the Carabao Cup, but he was one of the south coast outfit's heroes and was heavily praised by his own supporters on Twitter as they beat Everton on penalties last week to reach the last 16 of the competition.

We at Football FanCast decided to ask Saints fans to vote on our poll to see who they think should be starting between the sticks, and while 54% would keep the faith with McCarthy, 46% have called upon Hughes to make the unthinkable decision to drop the St Mary's fans' favourite – as you can see from the results below.