The president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, will face a FIFA ethics committee hearing tomorrow, where his rival for the presidency, Mohamed Bin Hammam, and FIFA vice-president Jack Warner face a charge of bribery.

There have been calls for next week's election to be cancelled in the wake of the developments of the last few days, and Platini thinks it will be the catalyst for change within FIFA, just as the IOC changed the way it ran the Olympic movement after officials were expelled from the Committee for taking payments in the bidding process for the 2002 Salt Lake City winter games.

Platini told CNN: "I think that FIFA is like the IOC was some years ago, I think we are at the end of a system based on politics.

"The future of this big international sports company (is to be) owned by people who are specialists, not political people, like you have (the late) Mr Juan Antonio Samaranch in the IOC, (former FIFA president) Mr (Joao) Havelange, Mr Blatter who comes from politics, and you have many companies like that in sport.

"I think it will finish in the next few years and we will have people from the sport - and I think FIFA has to come back to football."

Platini, widely linked with a run at the FIFA presidency in 2015, insisted there was "no possibility" of him stepping into the breach now, even if a situation arose where both candidates were suspended.

The Frenchman questioned the timing of the proceedings, adding: "We have had a system of allegations for long months with the World Cup (bidding for 2018 and 2022), with all these things.

"There is big pressure on FIFA, but where I am surprised is why before the elections?

"The disciplinary committee will bring Mr Bin Hammam to FIFA and I don't understand why you can't do the election quietly and then you open the case.

"I know you can say anything, but you need evidence and I do not have evidence of anything.

"We will wait for what the disciplinary committee says and then I don't know what will happen."

Platini insisted he still supported Blatter's candidacy, although he admitted he would not be able to maintain that position if Blatter was found guilty of wrongdoing in Zurich tomorrow.

"I am concerned because I am vice-president," Platini continued.

"The governing body of football has to be clean, has to be good, has to think about what the values of football are and things like that.

"We know perhaps in the big assemblies there are not so clean people, like with journalists, football players, in music, politicians.

"Let's go to the executive committee, the disciplinary committee, let the people have some evidence and take a decision after that."

Warner and Bin Hammam face lengthy bans should the corruption allegations made by fellow executive committee member Chuck Blazer be proven.

Blazer claims that the violations of FIFA's code of ethics occurred during a meeting organised by Bin Hammam and Warner for Caribbean Football Union (CFU) associations in Trinidad two weeks ago. Both men deny any wrongdoing.

Bin Hammam made a complaint on Thursday that Blatter knew about the alleged cash payments in the Caribbean and under their code, the ethics committee had to summon Blatter to answer that charge.

Warner believes FIFA is about to be rocked to the core.

"I tell you something, in the next couple days you will see a football tsunami that will hit FIFA and the world that will shock you," he told reporters in Port of Spain.

"The time has come when I must stop playing dead so you'll see it, it's coming, trust me. You'll see it by now and Monday.

"I have been here for 29 consecutive years and if the worst happens, the worst happens."

Warner insisted he is not guilty of a "single iota of wrongdoing".

Asked whether he would be prepared to walk away from FIFA, he retorted: "If that is what it comes to, so be it, you must never get too attached to anything.

"It clouds your judgement and therefore whatever happens, happens, que sera sera. I am not even remotely bothered.

"They can do what they want, it doesn't bother me."