FIFA president Sepp Blatter is adamant he will not give up his campaign to impose quotas for homegrown players.
But he has admitted his organisation's plan is "against one of the principles of European Union law".
However, despite seeing the proposal, which would limit clubs to five foreign players, flounder on the EU's insistence on free movement of labour around its member states, Blatter is adamant he will not give up his campaign.
"I would say, for the time being, it is against one of the principles of European Union law - free circulation of workers in Europe," he told Sky Sports News.
"I think there are arguments to say it would be good for English football, but also concerning the legal point of view, we have to investigate exactly what is illegal in this matter.
"We are now working on three different levels to get through the resolution which was taken by the FIFA congress at the end of May in Sydney, and was taken by a very huge majority - 155 votes against five, and those five votes included no European association.
"Therefore the mandate was given to the FIFA president and UEFA president, Michel Platini, to investigate this matter and look at, always within the limits of the law, how it can be achieved."
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On this occasion I fully back Blatter !!! The top four teams in the PL consist overwhelmingly of foreign players , lets get back to basics !! What has this all welcome rule brought us when we have according to most the best league in the world but can't send an england team to the Euro 2008 ??? , which is actually a blessing , we would of been humiliated !!!I can remember when Ardilles & Villa were the first foreign imports after the 1978 world cup . .and everyone was shocked !! I would decrease the foreign player allocation down to 2 and see what really happens , but that wont happen because the so called stars wouldnt end up being paid millions for half hearted football they serve up week after week !!
If that 6+5 rule becomes official then Arsenal and Inter will be destroyer because they don't have any homegrown players.
Suddenly we have this law potentially being introduced when Blatter realizes that, at the moment, English clubs have a lot of foreigners. Of course, when the Italians and Spanish were dominating it was okay to have lots of foreigners but now no.
Blatter's next law will be that English teams are only allowed to field girls in their first team.
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