Three Premier League clubs, Arsenal, Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers, want to sign Southampton goalkeeper Alex McCarthy.
Southampton are safe by the skin of their teeth and they owe their survival, at least some part of it anyway, to the fine displays of Alex McCarthy between the sticks.
The 28-year-old goalkeeper hadn’t played regularly for anyone since the 2013/14 season at Reading. But he was a revelation since replacing Fraser Forster between the sticks at the turn of the year, producing some truly mesmeric performances to ensure Swansea City went down in Southampton’s place.
But despite the lure of playing for one of the biggest clubs on the continent, and the prospect of Champions League or Europa League football, McCarthy instead should perhaps be more tempted by a move to newly promoted Wolverhampton Wanderers, who are also reportedly interested according to The Mirror.
The £3.5 million McCarthy could legitimately challenge for the number one jersey at Liverpool or Arsenal with neither Loris Karius nor Petr Cech covering themselves in glory in 2018. But there would be a real change that McCarthy, who has spent so much of his career as an understudy, would be stuck on the bench again.
Wolves, who seem desperate to upgrade John Ruddy, would surely give him a better chance of first team football at Molineux and the chance to establish himself as a top class Premier League goalkeeper over a prolonged period.
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