Aston Villa 0-0 Newcastle: Unai Emery and Eddie Howe have yet to receive the signing sessions that their squadrons require this summer due to PSR problems, because the respective fan bases are used to Premier League
Points that are shared on the field, point firmly off. With an hour on the clock and no sign that the impasse is being broken, both sets of fans are organically united against the line makers that they are convinced to suffocate their ability to grow.
It started between the home support, but the whole ground was participated in a few seconds. “Premier League, corrupt as F ***. Premier League, corrupt as F ***.” A minute later, when that singing lost his verve, the traveling tone -army of “F *** PSR” started that villa fans were more than happy to echo.
It has been a frustrating low season for both clubs, whose willingness to spend has been castrated by fear of punishment at a time when the giants continue to invent new ways to splash the money.
Before the competition – an incoherent affair that did not earn a goal – the pre -match tifo of the hollow end was 'no limits to our dreams'.
Apart from the fact that there are clear boundaries to the current reality of Villa – exhibited by Jacob Ramsey from home -grown to complete the completion of his £ 40 million switch to Newcastle, a deal that is only punished so that the club can retain sufficient headroom when it comes to the curse of Financial Beursplay.
Unai Emery's prediction for the season that his side is not contenders to end in the top seven, may seem like a touch pessimistic, since they are about to start a third consecutive campaign in Europe.
But because UEFA also closely observed their expenses, after he had handed out a fine of £ 9.5 million last month to violate their Squad costratio regulations, Villa had to effectively weaken their team despite the willingness to invest.
They remain a test case when it comes to seeing if it is still possible to be founded in the long term as a top team through process and vision instead of financial power. And really, it is not a piece to claim that how their next 10 months will be a big way to determine whether the superclub bubble has become impossible without seismic changes in the Rulebook.
For Newcastle and another fan base with unlimited dreams, the reality is less black and white. They can be frustrated by the same spending instructions that have delayed the climb of Villa.
Nevertheless, the absence of a clear off-field structure has left Eddie Howe with a team that seems too superficial for now to retain a challenge for the top four while he goes deep into the Champions League. And it may not be much longer before fans start asking the Saudi owners who were welcomed with open arms three years ago.
The progress and promises have all felt a touch more precarious to enter this campaign, at the end of a summer the diplomatic Howe was admitted “challenging”.
Digging their heels about Alexander Isak is one thing. Resting the manager with a group deep enough to compete on all fronts is something completely different.
Goals such as Benjamin Sesko and Bryan Mbeumo have chosen to go somewhere else, even though they get a lot of money.
But a well -oiled machine behind the scenes, with a transfer head and CEO on the same page, would have performed sufficient due diligence and developed a recruitment strategy that would have saved the club a considerable shame.
Both managers still have starting XIS to mix it with the big boys on one-off occasional problems when the days shorten and during a stormy first half yesterday, Newcastle were more entrepreneurial than their hosts.
The only thing that was missing was the finishing touch of a productive center-forward, because Anthonys Gordon and Elanga were refused by Villa's debut goalkeeper Marco Bizot, while several other solid opportunities zero high and broad ritten.
In the meantime, Villa enjoyed an enchantment of dominance early in the second period only for their momentum to be impeded by the red card of Ezri Konsa for removing Gordon as the last man.
Perhaps there was a scoreless trek appropriate considering their summers of inactivity.