UEFA hopes report fallout makes sport a special subject

UEFA is hoping a changing of laws will allow the organisation to hold more influence over clubs, including the number of foreign players they are allowed to field.

British minister Richard Caborn initiated the report, done by former Portuguese deputy minister Jose Luis Arnaut, UEFA wants to make sport a special subject and allow exemptions from EU laws.

UEFA hopes the report will lead to EU legislation to make sport a special case, allowing UEFA to have a 'fit and proper person' test for club owners and impose financial solvency tests.

UEFA knows the old foreign player rule will not work, but an exemption could help UEFA go back to the days when it could specify how many foreign players a club could select.

The Premier League, which did not like salary caps being recommended by the Independent European Sports Review Report, now feel that part of the report will not hurt it.

Before the report was published in May, the Premier League claimed the report would give more power to the EU and impose ideas like salary caps.

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