The president of Uefa has revealed talks will begin on plans to curb financial excesses in football, which could lead to a form of salary cap being introduced across the European game and strict limits placed on agents’ fees.

In his first UK newspaper interview since being elected, the second-most powerful man in football, Aleksander Ceferin, said that a ­series of meetings with key stakeholders would seek to introduce rules to stop the world’s richest clubs signing all the best players.

With Alexis Sánchez having ­become the highest-paid footballer ever in England on more than £600,000 a week at Manchester United, Ceferin confirmed the new measures to be discussed include a “luxury tax”, with which clubs would be fined for exceeding a specified wage bill.

Also on the agenda will be curbs on the number of players a team could own or sign on loan, a move that would prevent the likes of Chelsea hoarding young talent.

In a wide-ranging interview in his office at Uefa’s headquarters on the banks of Lake Geneva, Ceferin said that restoring the “competitive balance” of European club football was the No 1 priority of his presidency, with the gulf between the game’s haves and have-nots having grown bigger than ever after Paris St-Germain’s world-record-shattering signings of Neymar and Kylian Mbappé last summer and ­another mega-money transfer ­window for the Premier League’s biggest teams.