UEFA president Michel Platini continued to stay silent over the current Fifa crisis yesterday, dodging questions about Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke’s suspension on Thursday.

Valcke is currently being investigated for allegations that he was implicated in a World Cup tickets scheme. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Valcke had also attempted to secure a pay-off of several million pounds a week before he was suspended.

But Platini, who is in the running to be the next Fifa president, refused to comment on the ongoing situation and left Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino to answer questions on the mess.

“We feel of course all very sad about the news coming on, almost on a daily basis (from Fifa),” Infantino said. “We are disappointed about all this news. But on the other side I think there is a process now which has started of course which will lead to elections of a new Fifa president.

“Something needs to be done, will be done to restore Fifa’s image.”

Platini has put his name in the hat to be president after Sepp Blatter surprisingly resigned just days after being reelected for a fifth term in May.

Despite not saying what he would actually do if elected, the 60-year-old has received the backing of his home confederation unlike rival hopefuls Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan and Chung Mong Joon of South Korea.

“Michel of course has administrative abilities and he has opinions how to run football that are good and healthy,” Football Association of Iceland president Geir Thorsteinsson said.

“He has brought all the football family together. There is great unity in Europe.

“At the same time in Uefa we have great respect for one of the former top players in the world. If you can have that in one person you cannot ask for anything else.”

The criticism coming from Chung and Hussein is that Platini should not be entrusted with helping Fifa make a clean break from its tainted Blatter era given that he helped the 79-year-old president first get elected in 1998.

Only when Blatter reneged on a 2011 promise not to seek a fifth term did Platini turn on his former mate.

“Michel Platini wouldn’t be the first person who on the road to power has changed his policies when he gets power,” English Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn said.

“We feel he has got the right experience, the right views on football and that Fifa is going to get reformed anyway to make him the best leader of the game.”