UEFA president Michel Platini has reiterated his desire to introduce restrictions on the number of foreign players in squads.

Platini has made several attempts to gather support for his "nine-plus-nine" system, where at least half of the match-day squad would need to be compromised of "home grown" players.

UEFA law currently defines "home-grown" as: those who, regardless of their nationality, have been trained by their club or by another club in the same national association for at least three years between the age of 15 and 21.

In European competition at least eight of a club's 25-man squad must meet this criteria.

While the European Commission have blocked a FIFA attempt to limit the number of foreign players in a match-day squad to five, Platini is confident that his new proposal could work.

Platini said: "We understand the Commission's position but still want to try to protect the local identity of clubs. We have studied this more carefully and have now come up with the idea of nine-plus-nine.

"But before we propose this to the commission, we have to make sure the whole football family support it."

While several powerful individuals within the footballing community are against the idea, Platini feels that measures which curb the excessive spending of some clubs must be introduced.

He said: "I can see lots of red lights flashing and I am afraid for the future of football which is going pear-shaped in some areas.

"Perhaps I am being alarmist, but we have to face up to match-fixing, corruption, illegal betting, violence on the pitch, racism and hooliganism. Of course there are many good qualities and values about football, but we ignore the problems at our peril.

"I am very worried when players are going on strike in Spain and Italy because they are not being paid properly by their clubs."