MUNICH - Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness believes that football's controlling body Fifa can only start afresh without beleaguered president Sepp Blatter.

He does not believe that the 76-year-old Blatter will be able to stay in office until the end of his fourth term as president in 2015. "Not only that, it is the joke of the year if he thinks that he can stand for presidency again."

Hoeness's statement at a charity function on Wednesday is the most outspoken to date since the Fifa executive committee meeting where Blatter announced the formation of the organisation's ethics committee and oversaw the passing of Fifa's code of ethics.

Blatter has been criticised since it became public that he knew of widespread corruption involving former Fifa president Joao Havelange and other Fifa executive members. He said that he was full of enthusiasm after the executive passed the code and described it as a historic day in Fifa's reform process.

German Fifa executive member Theo Zwanziger confirmed that Blatter's position in the organisation had not even been discussed at the meeting.

"It does not look good for him," Hoeness said. "The measures he introduced are not even worth the paper on which they are written."

Hoeness is one of Blatter's most outspoken and public critics but he is not Blatter's only nemesis, as the head of the German football league, Reinhard Rauball, phoned the Swiss national last week and called on him to step down. Zwanziger, on the other hand, has said that Blatter was behind the reform process, "even if it sounds (like a ) paradox".

He said it had often not been easy to pass resolutions at the executive committee level.

There seems to be no united European front against Blatter and Zwanziger said his reading of the situation is that of many other European representatives.

"After all, I was voted onto the executive by Uefa (Europe's governing football body)."