The revelations were revealed in a frank interview with the Manchester Evening News and has mant fans up in arms. The outspoken Latics owner has also admitted to making a big mistake sacking former boss Ronnie Moore who was ousted after sustained pressure from the fans and also confessed that he has 'no idea' where the club will finish this season under new manager Dave Penney.
He told the MEN, "Of course it's a far from ideal scenario. But it makes you wonder - if it's good enough for Inter Milan and AC Milan to share why can't a Division One and Two club? It makes very good financial sense - you bear the burden together. Would I want to go to somebody else's ground? Of course not, because you start to lose your identity. But we are in an unsustainable environment at the moment. If a local club said we could build a stadium together and it would be somewhere in the middle I'd do it tomorrow. We won't be doing this for another ten years, there's no question."
"I never think of packing it in no more than three times a week," he joked. "There have been cold winter's nights when we've been beaten by Yeovil at home and you go back to your hotel and it's pouring with rain and you think: `What on earth am I doing?' But that happens to all chairmen. We gave into fan power and should have given him [Ronnie Moore] more time. It cost us lots of money." Speaking about the sacking of John Sheridan after the dogs fiasco, he went on, "You expect your players and manager to do the right thing. It was inevitable - we were in freefall."
"Hughesy has not been able to find another club and is training with us. Who knows? It's Dave's decision. We're in unknown territory this season. But Dave is a hard worker. One thing for sure is that nobody will be better organised than us."