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Aston Villa will have to find over £9m by the end of the month to stave off another cash crisis at Villa Park.

More huge bills are hurtling towards the Birmingham club – and officials are working frantically behind the scenes to ensure they are met.

Wage payments to staff, tax commitments and money owed to other clubs for transfers have all contributed to the latest call on owner Dr Tony Xia.

And that means all avenues are currently being explored to ensure that Villa are not facing cashflow problems once more.

It is just two months since the problem first surfaced.

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But no long-term solutions have been found and Xia appears unwilling to relinquish control with the latest £9m a minor inconvenience compared to the £75m black hole that needs filling during the next 12 months.

It appears that one route down which Villa are to progress is to raise money via mortgages secured against an estimated 25 acres of freehold property the club owns.

One of those sites is near Villa Park at Brookvale.

It is understood that Sir John Beckwith is the man who has handed over the money to set a charge against a piece of land that is used as the staff's matchday car park.

The seasoned property specialist is a former employer of Villa's chief commercial officer Luke Organ and has provided the funding.

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Beckwith has stepped in and now has legal right to around half of the land Villa own on the 12-acre site around the corner from Villa Park.

However, according to one insider that might not be the end of Beckwith's dealings with the club.

He said: “It's unlikely that it would just be one deal over the car park – there is other land which he will also take an interest in.”

Beckwith, a property mogul who is the father of socialite Tamara, knows Organ after he employed the former Wasps commercial director ten years ago.

Organ worked for a company called Frontiers that was owned by Beckwith and it was to him that he turned to raise cash.

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The 32-year-old is working to keep the wolves from the door and appears to be managing this in the first instance by mortgaging the club's land bank.

Xia has returned to the UK from China – and remains determined not to lose faith and see this out to the end, despite interest from potential purchasers.

One was for a minority shareholding - £30m for a 30 per cent stake – that would have almost certainly involved a right-to-buy if Xia hit further problems.

But Xia, in a statement to supporters, remains insistent that he does not want to sell the club, although with financial problems that continue to blight his running of Villa has his work cut out to keep the ship afloat financially.