Football FanCast columnist David Mooney is not a fan of FIFA's proposed 6+5 quota and feels it will prove detrimental to the English game.

Perhaps one of the biggest mistakes I made during the 2007/08 season was buying my mother an iPod for Christmas. She has hundreds upon hundreds of CDs and isn't very good when it comes to computers, so muggings here has spent the last two days saving the music into iTunes. And I'm not even half-way through.

But, to stop myself from losing the will to live completely, I've been reading a lot of football rumours and news while I'm waiting and the one thing that has leapt out at me has been Blatter's plan to introduce the six and five team quota.

Since 2006, all UEFA competitions have had the two plus two ruling in place. That's two players from the club's academy and two players trained by the national association (so, that's any two players trained by an English club for us). Most importantly, though, these rules don't include anything on nationality, so someone like Robin Van Persie would fulfil the former role for Arsenal and the latter for any English club who buys him.

I don't know what Blatter's intentions are by trying to introduce a limit on foreigners, but I personally, can see there being a few outcomes if the ruling comes in. Assuming it limits foreigners, whether trained in an English academy or not, then I see two events happening.

The first is that the standard of Premier League football will decrease - this can't be an appealing prospect, considering some of the games I've had to sit through in the last few years. Second, is that any decent English talent will be snapped up by the big four clubs, and so making that void wider. In fact, the distance between the top four and the rest of the Premier League (with the possible exception of Everton) is more of a chasm than a void and I see this doing nothing to help the situation.

It's most likely to bleed the lesser teams of English talent, but provide them with a bundle of cash that they can use to bring foreigners in with. Foreigners that they won't be able to play. Then again, they could use the cash to snap up the English players that aren't on their way to the top four, but is someone like Danny Mills actually going to be worth his new, much higher, fee?

I mean, the value of English players is high as it is. Look at my team's (Man City) spending last summer. The media lynched Sven for buying foreign when he (of all people!) should have known the best English talent. And that's fair enough; he probably did know who would suit his team from his former England squad. How dare he buy someone like Martin Petrov for £4.7m when he could have had Stuart Downing for three times the price?!

But Blatter's plan is going to hike the prices of English players still further. The best will become so highly valued that nobody but the big four could buy them. So how he thinks this is going to help the Premier League, I have no idea.

Now, to my point that it will be detrimental to Premier League football. A lot of arguments I've heard in favour of the scheme is that it will give young, English players a chance, when they wouldn't have gotten it previously. But I always find myself looking no further than the question ‘why aren't they getting that chance?' Is it because there's a foreign player in the way or is it because, actually, they're not good enough?

I'm not convinced that the crowds will continue to turn up to watch this, now, poorer football and I don't think it will truly benefit the England team as people think. These youngsters that are playing are going to be up against other youngsters, who aren't of the ability of the players they were previously facing.

Let me give an example. In my opinion, Ishmael Miller wasn't good enough in Man City's first team. For someone his size, he was knocked off the ball easily and didn't seem to want it when he wasn't in acres of space. But, in the Championship for West Brom he's been a revelation. There are more English players in the Championship and more not-Premiership-quality foreigners. What's to say that this wouldn't be the quality of player he'd have to face in Blatter's Premiership and so he would shine?

It wouldn't make him any better of a player; it would simply make him look better because of his opposition. And that doesn't mean he's going to be very good at international level, should he be called up.

Don't get me wrong, I think there should be something in place to aid young, English footballers, but I don't think this is the answer. Nor do I claim to know the answer. It's going to take some serious thinking from the English FA, from UEFA and from FIFA. Not imposing the scheme on a whim of a man who's choosing to ignore the downsides to his idea.

Before I'm accused of having this standpoint, because Man City have a lot of foreigners, I'd like to raise the point that, before any summer transfers, the current squad would fare quite well with six home grown players - Hart, Richards, Onouha, Ball, Johnson, Vassell and Sturridge are all English, while Ireland has come through the youth setup at our club.

The six plus five plan, nevertheless, is illegal under EU law. But Blatter will meet with the infamous "someone in Brussels" to sort things out - or, as he says, to explore matters and not stop the scheme. I'm comforted by the fact that he's not going to accept no for an answer.

I'm not comforted by the fact that I'm still putting love song compilation CDs onto my mother's iPod. If I see another one, I think I might have to scream.

Who said there is no such thing as the beautiful game?