The Serie A club bucked the trend of previous European participants by arriving in Tokyo a full week before their semi-final victory with Asian champions Urawa Reds, and Blatter believes that change in attitude could see the event go back to the format first used in Brazil in 1999.

The inaugural FIFA World Club Championship, as it was known at the time, featured eight teams split into two groups of four, with sides meeting each other once before the top two in each group progressed to the semi-finals.

That format was scrapped when the tournament was resurrected as a replacement for the Intercontinental Cup in 2005 in a bid to entice European representatives to take part.

"This was the original idea for this competition, to give everybody the chance to play two games and not to be eliminated until the semi-finals," said Blatter.

"It has not been realised because of the international calendar, and FIFA is a victim of its own international calendar.

"The difficulty we had was because of the invitation or obligation to the winners of the Champions League and for them to give more time to this competition. We are bound by this routine.

"However, Milan are here for one week and this is a matter now that we can envisage again. It's a good idea and we will take it up again."

Japan has hosted the tournament since it resumed in 2005 and will again hold the event in 2008.

But, despite proclaiming themselves happy with the efforts of the Japanese, FIFA is considering taking the event elsewhere from 2009 onwards, with the successful bidders being granted back-to-back competitions.

"We have opened the bidding and we have received interest from different cities and countries," Blatter said.

"We have a bidding process, with Australia, Portugal, the United Arab Emirates and also, again, Japan.

"We will analyse the situation and see where the competition will go for the next two years, for 2009 and 2010. It's just an indication but we are happy in Japan with how it is organised."