Dr Tony Xia's proposed £60m takeover of Aston Villa is likely to be rejected

Revamp would introduce six extra sides, including two top-flight B-teams

Football League are considering proposals for four divisions of 20 clubs

All the signs point to the Premier League and Football League turning down Aston Villa’s £60million takeover by Dr Tony Xia’s Chinese consortium, on the grounds that they haven’t the funds to do so.

Well-placed sources claim that American Randy Lerner, who is trying to offload the club at a knockdown price, has already been told that Xia will not pass the necessary financial tests.

Dr Tony Xia's proposed £60million takeover of relegated Aston Villa is likely to be rejected

The Football League are looking for wealthy top-flight clubs to fund their revolutionary proposals for four divisions of 20 clubs.

One of the plans devised by FL chief executive Shaun Harvey is for the six extra clubs needed — there will be no relegation from League Two, but two promoted from the Conference as usual in the last season before the suggested revamp — to be Premier League B sides.

They would pay £5million a year for the privilege of playing in the Football League, bringing in £30m that would compensate clubs for losing revenue from four fewer home matches.

Harvey is due to unveil his version of FA chairman Greg Dyke’s B-club plans at the FL clubs’ summer summit in Portugal next week.

Chief executive Shaun Harvey (left), pictured with Sheffield Wednesday fan Michael Vaughan before the Championship play-off final, will table a proposal for top-flight B-teams to join the Football League

A Football League spokesman said: ‘There are currently no proposals for where the six additional clubs would come from. This is a matter for the 72 clubs to discuss and will form part of the debate that begins at our annual conference. If there is an appetite to progress discussions, a final proposal will be submitted to clubs before a vote in 2017.’

However, the all-powerful Premier League oppose B clubs joining the Football League.

Ticketmaster, who somehow keep winning top sports contracts despite the London 2012 fiasco of their computer software being unable to cope with the demand for online tickets, are once again in the firing line.

They were responsible for selling Hull City’s tickets for the Championship play-off final against Sheffield Wednesday.

But the flawed selling process ignored Football League and Wembley instructions to do it strictly block by block.

This meant that about 6,000 unsold seats that could have been redistributed to the over-subscribed Wednesday allocation could not be used because of security risks.

About 6,000 tickets were unsold for the Championship play-off final, despite demand from Wednesday

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is understood to have used Chelsea’s £60m-a-year deal with Nike to up his club’s agreement from 2017-18 by £3m a year.

But Levy will still feel angst that Nike are paying Chelsea almost twice as much as Spurs.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy managed to negotiate a £3m increase on the club's deal with adidas

Rash spreads quickly

Even before Marcus Rashford was named in England manager Roy Hodgson’s 23-strong squad for Euro 2016, he was the subject of an intriguing market by spread-betters Sporting Index.

They predict Rashford playing 70-73 minutes in France, but it could be a lot more.

Sporting Index launched their Euro bets in Lille on Tuesday, the genteel French city where police will be directing what could be hundreds of thousands of England and Wales fans to watch their Group B match if they haven’t got tickets for the game in Lens, which lacks facilities.

Lille showed no signs of knowing anything about what is to hit it.

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has made England's final 23-man squad for Euro 2016

Independent FA director Roger Devlin can’t do worse with his own cinema project than Sepp Blatter’s FIFA vanity film, United Passions, which was a £20m flop.

Breaking The Bank, a romantic comedy about a struggling family-run bank, has been written and co-produced by City financier Devlin and is on general release from Friday.

Unlike Blatter, who used FIFA cash, Devlin self-financed his film rather than raid FA coffers.

Shenanigans at FIFA under the supposed new broom of Gianni Infantino go from bad to worse. L

egal chief Marco Villiger has been promoted to deputy secretary-general, having engineered Infantino’s coup of hire-and-fire control of the independent committees which led to the resignation of audit president Domenico Scala.

Infantino had first tried to get the FIFA council to sack Scala — who had only offered the president a £1.3m-a-year salary — with only England’s David Gill objecting.

According to leaked minutes, Gill said: ‘We can’t dismiss people without a piece of paper and facts. It’s an unbelievable situation.’