Aston Villa have taken another knock after it was revealed that the club must raise £9 million by the end of the month, reports the Mirror.

A mixture of bills, wages and money owed to other clubs has created the bulk of the bill and the club must now find a way of raising the slap of the £75million total needed by the end of the year.

It has been two months since the crisis surfaced after Villa's play-off final defeat to Fulham at the end of May, but owner Tony Xia is seemingly reluctant to sell up.

A path that the club are expected to explore is through taking out mortgages on 25 acres worth of property that the club owns.

One of the sites makes up the staff car park next to Villa Park and has had money handed over to set a charge against it from Sir John Beckwith.

The Mirror understands that Beckwith now has the right to half the land Villa own on the 12-acre site.

There has been plenty of talk about Villa raising their funds via the selling of star men, with Jack Grealish recently linked with a £30 million move to Tottenham Hotspur, as reported by Sky Sports.

The verdict 

This is beginning to get very worrying.

There is no way that Villa can expect to keep dodging disaster each time it rears its head each month. A long-term solution is needed and Tony Xia needs to leave.

His stubbornness looks like it could drive Villa into the ground and the selling off of club land in order to stay afloat is far from a sustainable solution.