Arsene Wenger, coach of English soccer club Arsenal, has spoken out against Fifa and Uefa's plans to further limit the movements of young players, warning that the regulations, combined with the English FA's rules, will make it impossible for clubs to develop young talent.

"We are being rewarded for our youth policy over the years, but with the new rules coming in, it will make that policy virtually impossible," said Wenger, after Arsenal's young players beat West Bromwich Albion in the League Cup.

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"If you cannot add any players under the age of 18, and on top of that English clubs are limited to bringing in young players who live less than 90 minutes from the training ground, how can we produce home-grown players? It's vital that this rule is not implemented because English clubs would have a domestic limitation and a foreign limitation, making it harder to produce home-grown players.

"In England we accumulate disadvantages. We cannot buy outside our 90-minute radius. We cannot take a player from Asia, North or South America, Africa, Serbia or Croatia, who are not EU."

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Wenger has also expressed concern that the strength of the euro against the pound and the rising tax rates in the UK will make it more difficult to attract top-class players to the Premier League.

"What can we do?" he asked. "We can only pray that somebody next to London Colney is as gifted as Maradona and says, 'Can I play for you?' We want to be the best league in the world and that is why we have to open the doors to the best players. The first signs, with Ronaldo and Kaká going to Spain, are not very good for us."