Football "super agent" Mino Raiola has announced his intention to challenge Sepp Blatter for the FIFA presidency this year.
Raiola, who represents some of the biggest names in the game from Mario Balotelli to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba, told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on Friday that something must be done to prevent Blatter from being re-elected.
His idea is to stand for election himself, and he does not lack the funds to finance an election campaign.
"It makes me deeply sick just to think about Blatter being re-elected," Raiola said. "Do you want a dictator as president of FIFA or a democracy? Even a 15-year-old kid knows that the only good thing about FIFA is the video game. They need more transparency.
"FIFA should be for the fans, the professional and amateur footballers, but they don't do anything for these groups."
To enter the running for the election, Raiola will need to find five associations willing to back him by Jan. 29, but with his extensive network within the game, the Dutchman with an Italian background believes that will not be a stumbling block.
"I'll find five FAs to back me," he said. "It's incomprehensible that some FAs still vote for Blatter. If people vote Blatter, they are voting North Korea, if they vote me, they are voting South Korea."
Should the 47-year-old enter the running, he would be up against the Swiss incumbent as well as Jerome Champagne and Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, while David Ginola could also enter the running.
However, FIFA has announced that the three-man panel overseeing the election rules has not yet begin its work before next week's deadline for applications.
Compliance chairman Domenico Scala said via an official FIFA statement: "We have to consider that it will take some time until the [panel] will be in a position to announce the candidates."
The Swiss former pharmaceutical industry executive added: "Thus, we really cannot comment, regardless of whether any prospective candidate declares that he/she meets the requirements by the deadline."
Scala did not identify former France player David Ginola and former FIFA international relations director Jerome Champagne by name, though would-be candidates must gather nominations from five of 209 member federations by Thursday.
It is also unclear if they fulfil a key election rule of having held "active roles" in football for two years since 2010.
Blatter and Prince Ali risk being reported for unethical behavior if they breach election rules on conflicts of interest and campaign funding by using their official positions as a platform to seek votes.
All candidates must also be subject to an integrity check by the FIFA ethics committee investigatory chamber. That group is being run by Swiss former prosecutor Cornel Borbely after lead prosecutor Michael Garcia resigned in protest last month.
Scala said his panel can assess each applicant's eligibility only after receiving the integrity check within 10 days.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.