• Jordanian al-Hussein says it is the last chance to get Fifa right • Opponent Sheikh Salman wants to change president’s role

Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, the Jordanian Fifa presidential candidate, has claimed it would be “catastrophic” for football if he does not win the race to succeed Sepp Blatter in February.

The former Fifa executive committee member, who will meet with the FA chairman Greg Dyke and the other home nations while in London, said the organisation was on the brink of extinction if it failed to properly reform.

“Everyone recognises this is the last chance to get it right,” he said. “We don’t want a situation where two years down the line, more scandals come out. I’m determined that we do save Fifa and do it from within.”

Prince Ali, who was defeated by Blatter in May’s presidential election shortly before the Swiss agreed to step down in the midst of a spiralling corruption crisis, said that he was the only candidate who had the will to properly reform the organisation.

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“If it’s not done this time and we continue to have problems in the future, I think it will be a real catastrophe for the organisation,” he said. “I have been stable in terms of what I see as the future of Fifa, I am not someone who changes his mind dependent on the situation.”

Prince Ali refused to directly comment on his rivals – the Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino, the Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman, the South African Tokyo Sexwale and the former Fifa executive Jérôme Champagne – but implied they would deliver more of the same.

Of the eight-year bans handed down last month to Blatter and the Uefa president Michel Platini by the Fifa ethics committee, he said: “Everything has to be on the books. In this day and age, to have an oral agreement is totally irresponsible.”

Publishing an updated manifesto, Prince Ali promised to limit the Fifa president and executive committee members to two four-year terms and publish the salaries of all senior officials. He also suggested he would overhaul the bidding rules for the World Cup to mirror the International Olympic Committee system introduced in the wake of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal.

“You base the decision on where to host the World Cup on what the evaluation team recommends,” he said. “That is where it has to go. I don’t think it’s correct for executive committee members to be travelling to host nations.”

Ali called again for the immediate release of Michael Garcia’s full report into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process, which was released as a highly unsatisfactory summary that was disowned by its author.

The former Fifa vice-president’s chances have been limited by the fact he is not backed by any particular confederation but believes that the 209 member associations have more leeway to make their own minds up than had previously been the case.

Ali said that he would be a “hands-on president” who would “take responsibility”.

In contrast Sheikh Salman, the Bahraini Asian Football Confederation president who remains the favourite to win February’s election, said last month that he would reform the embattled organisation by making the presidential role more akin to that of a non-executive chairman.

“I shall be a non-executive president who supervises a new top class management team but leads by example and not by micro-managing every aspect of the organisation,” he said, unveiling his reform proposals that included separating the organisation into a “football Fifa” and a “business Fifa”.

Prince Ali said the existing reform proposals presented by Fifa remained “very vague” but conceded he would have to unpick them at the next Fifa Congress in May if he was successful in winning the presidency.