"To go forward, we would say that it is the result that six players eligible to play for the national team of the country should be on the field of play at the beginning. It means that with the substitutions you could have 3+8 at the end.
"We need some consultation with the government authorities, especially in Europe, but we would propose to start a '4+7' in 2010, '5+6' in 2011 and we would be ready to apply '6+5' in 2012."
'The application of such a system would start only at the end of 2010 and we would start progressively with four, five and six.
'Even if it is necessary, because we have had Manchester United winning the European Champions League with six players eligible for the Great Britain team at the beginning of the match, so we are not far away.
'Chelsea had four.
Zenit St Petersburg, when they played Glasgow Rangers, they had up to seven. Glasgow had four or five. 'We are not far away from a situation.
'Speaking about it is illegal? For whom? For when? If there is a law, a law can be amended.
'I have already now a meeting with the speaker of the European parliament - chairman as we say, but you say in the British version, the speaker - on June 5 in the afternoon in Brussels, as he said, to explore now the ways. 'If he says to explore the ways, it's not to say 'stop it', so you see we're on the right track.''