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Many will have Jack Butland between the posts but if you’re looking for alternative defensive cover, Marc Muniesa costs just 4.5 and looks to be a fixture of Mark Hughes’s backline.

The club statement explained the situation, saying: “The central defender has suffered a recurrence of a back problem that troubled him last season”.

The injury hampered the 27-year-old’s involvement last season, but the club had been hopeful that surgery would not be required.

Stoke City defender Marc Muniesa has signed a new four-year contract with the Premier League club.