Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany has slammed UEFA's Financial Fair Play laws.

Kompany believes that the financial regulations initially drafted by UEFA to stop clubs going bust are being used instead to protect the status quo at the top of the game.

"Just who is FFP protecting?" questioned Kompany. "For me, it is protecting those few clubs who were already geared up to be successful.

"It's the clubs who were already able to generate the most revenue that wanted FFP the most.

"So I just look at it in terms of the established order protecting themselves.

"In the business world, you can't tell people that they can't invest their own money in their own companies.

"When I first came to England seven years ago, it was the same four clubs always in the top four. That has changed. Our owners have invested to build a successful club. That in itself will bring in more fans and create more revenue. Is that so bad?

"Our owners are successful businessmen investing in business. We all understand that there needs to be regulation in football, but the way it's been done makes me ask what is going to now change at the top over the next few years?

"Just because a club is part of the established order doesn't mean they should be guaranteed success forever."