And as the summer transfer window approaches many believe that this is a priority position to be be filled by Manuel Pellegrini.
Both players had their chances during the 2018/19 season with Masuaku finishing strongly having held the job down for the last five games when he turned in some impressive performances.
Cresswell’s form had appeared to improve prior to that but there remained question marks over his defending at times.
ClaretandHugh conducted a poll among it’s followers to see which of the two they would sooner leave and Masuaku was the choice with just over 62 per cent (953) preferring him to leave with Cresswell getting the vote from 583 of the 1500 who cast a vote.