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Wenger makes two teams claim

ESPN staff
October 23, 2010
Arsene Wenger fears UEFA's rule changes will alter the landscape © Getty Images
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Arsene Wenger fears English clubs may need to employ two teams if the Premier League rejects UEFA's new financial rules.

UEFA supremo Michel Platini has been vocal in his criticism of clubs who spend beyond their means and has revealed plans to ensure teams who enter European competition balance their books. Clubs will be required to break even over a rolling three-year period if they want to take part in the Champions League or Europa League and Wenger feels the Premier League will reject these rules.

"If UEFA brings the rules in, these rules then give a problem to the Premier League," Wenger said. "Will they accept them or continue with their own rules? I think they will not accept and teams will have a double problem - one team for England and one for Europe.

"Nobody knows yet what the rules will exactly be and anyway you will have to have a period of adaptation because players who are under contract now cannot go from one situation to another.

"You have to have an adaptation period to allow the clubs to adapt to the new rules. That is not for tomorrow."

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