Aston Villa welcome Arsenal to the Midlands on Monday night in a clash between two sides enduring and enjoying wildly contrasting conclusions to the summer transfer window.
Villa have been frequently framed as the most potent victim of sports financial regulations. While Unai Emery’s side have been forced to repeatedly sell before buying and paying off fines from UEFA for spending breaches, the established elite can continue splashing the cash without any consequence. Arsenal, serve as a prime example.
Despite not prioritizing sales while making a series of lavish transfers in recent years, there appears to be no risk of the Gunners violating any rules. “Some other clubs, maybe they need to sell,” Mikel Arteta shrugged earlier this summer. Arsenal, clearly, aren’t one of them.
Beyond the bitterness of fans glancing up from their spreadsheets on the day before the summer transfer window closes, there is the added edge of Emery’s history with Arsenal. The Basque boss beat out his compatriot to take over from Arsène Wenger in 2018 only to eventually be permanently succeeded by Arteta 18 months later.
Two of Arsenal’s previous three trips to Villa Park have ended in triumph for the scorner Emery, although recent form would not naturally point to history repeating itself.
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