Keith Wyness

[Matt Collins]

It's very embarrassing, but it doesn't have to be over any significant sum.

I like issuing winding up petitions, great fun and it usually gets the attention required and my cheque arrives.

I read that HMRC would only issue a winding up order if we missed the final deadline. Yorkshire Lions on twitter says he imagines it's PAYE due months ago, which wouldn't fit with the "temporary oversight in light of Wyness going" narrative

[ChicagoLion]

From Sky news article: "One source suggested that he had been suspended after informing Mr Xia that the club would have to file for administration if it could not meet its tax obligations."

Shit

[GarTomas]

My problem with him isn't that he's a football man, but quite the opposite. He's a businessman who sees football as a way to earn a good living and would be off tomorrow if he got a better offer. 

The chances of a better offer look slimmer and slimmer by the minute.

Unlike him. /cheapshot

Made me chuckle.

[saunders_heroes]

Fuck sake go and get Steve Stride back on board.

[frank black]

We have more than enough assets to avoid doing a Glasgow Rangers.......no panic.......gulps

[villabear]

Will he do a comedy video to tell us what’s going on?

[ChicagoLion]

We have more than enough assets to avoid doing a Glasgow Rangers.......no panic.......gulps

It’s not the assets you want to worry about, it’s the liabilities.

[Ads]

He's been suspended for telling Xia that we have to enter administration? Really? Seems a bit ludicrous to me, equally so as to how this source has the information and given it's sensitivity, we can presume they'd be sacked tomorrow.

Or, this whole embrassing affair is just giving further ammunition for shit to be made up.

[ChicagoLion]

Issuing a Winding up petition is public.

[Drummond]

If Xia wants Wyness out, this is the perfect and cheap way of doing it. Gross Misconduct.

It's embarrassing but not the end of the world. I'd have thought Wyness probably playing billy big bollocks and HMRC taking no prisoners. Or he's incompetent and forgotten it. Either way that's Wyness gone as it's very rare for someone to come back from a suspension these days.

[Mister E]

It's probably just a technicality. A fucking embarrassing one.

That's my view. I wonder that Wyness would be suspended for a technicality: that's the bit that is out of the ordinary.
So, extrapolating the HMRC and the Wyness issue is inevitable …

[Chris Harte]

I wonder how long it'll take the internet to melt.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

From Sky:


Aston Villa suspends CEO as club races to meet HMRC tax bill

The multimillion pound tax bill was due to be paid just days after Villa's Championship play-off final defeat, Sky News learns.


By Mark Kleinman, City editor

Aston Villa Football Club has suspended its chief executive just days after losing the match badged as the most lucrative in world football, as it faces the potential threat of a winding-up order over a multimillion pound tax bill.

Sky News has learnt that Villa, which last month lost the Championship play-off final against Fulham, has been given a brief extension by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to make the payment.

One source said the bill was due to be paid last week, and that the grace period to make the payment could be as short as a week.

If HMRC did serve a winding-up order against Villa, it could threaten the existence of one of the founder members of the English Football League in 1888.

However, a source close to the club insisted on Tuesday that its board was "confident of making a substantial tax payment within days".

On Tuesday, Villa suspended Keith Wyness, its chief executive since 2016, amid what sources described as efforts by him to find new funding to see the club through its current funding crisis.

Villa's financial travails since missing out on promotion to the Premier League are well-documented, with John Terry, the former Chelsea and England central defender, leaving the club shortly after the defeat.

Tony Xia, a Chinese businessman, bought Villa from Randy Lerner in 2016 but is reported to have held talks with potential buyers in recent days.

In a statement issued in response to an enquiry from Sky News, a spokesman said:

"Aston Villa Football Club can confirm that Chief Executive, Keith Wyness, has been suspended by the club with immediate effect.

"Owner and Chairman, Dr Tony Xia will assume the role until further notice.

"There will be no further comment from the club at this time."

There is no suggestion that Mr Wyness has been accused of any wrongdoing.

One source suggested that he had been suspended after informing Mr Xia that the club would have to file for administration if it could not meet its tax obligations.

[Three Spires Villa]

Do HMRC issue a winding up order if the payment was meant to be made today and wasn't? I think there is more to it, we have missed payments before I would guess

[Phil from the upper holte]

He hasn’t tweeted since before Saturday’s game...

A wild guess but perhaps he is on holiday.

With the missing tax money