UEFA president Michel Platini says he wants the European Union to protect his organisation against court cases brought by clubs.

Platini is pushing through financial fair-play rules for European competition next season that will oblige teams to stop operating at a loss or face exclusion.

And he wants protection from the European Commission (EC) in order to prevent teams excluded from European competition from suing UEFA.

Already this season UEFA has barred FC Sion from the Europa League for fielding ineligible players but the Swiss side are considering taking their case to the European courts.

Platini believes other teams could do likewise if excluded from European tournaments.

“I know the clubs will take us to court. It’s the first thing they will do (if excluded),” he said.

“That’s why I went to (EC president Jose Manuel) Barroso and asked him for judicial protection.

“I told him: ‘If you believe in what I’m doing for football, then you have to protect me, otherwise it’s going to be difficult’.

“What will happen if an excluded club sues for 10 million (euros) in compensation and there are 10 teams excluded?

“He (Barroso) told me he would deal with it.”

Speaking about his former club, Platini said Juventus would be getting no help from UEFA in their bid to have Inter stripped of the 2006 Serie A title.

Juventus were stripped of the 2005 and 2006 scudetto crowns for match-fixing, with the latter title then awarded to Inter.

The Turin club, however, refuse to accept the sanction and have appealed both to UEFA and to the Italian Olympic Committee’s National Court of Arbitration for Sport to intervene.

“They would have done better to save the money on the stamp,” said Platini when asked if Juve had indeed sent him a letter regarding their appeal.