Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says Uefa should punish clubs that break its financial fair play (FFP) rules by excluding them from European football.
Nine clubs are being dealt with by Uefa for FFP breaches, withManchester City yet to resolve their sanctions.
Wenger, 64, thinks a ban from European competition is a fair punishment.
"You would think that you accept the rules and you're in the competition, or you don't accept the rules and you're not in the competition," he said.
"There are rules. You respect them or you don't respect them. If you don't respect them you have to be punished."
City and Uefa are understood to be some distance apart over a potential deal on financial and sporting sanctions for breaching financial fair play rules.
Premier League leaders City have until Friday to reach a settlement with European football's governing body.
The other eight sides to fail FFP, including French club Paris St-Germain, are believed to have settled, or are on the verge of settling, a deal with Uefa.
However, City officials are thought to have balked at the penalties offered to them for contravening Uefa's 'break-even' test by the governing body's independent investigatory panel.
The sanctions include a penalty in the region of £50m, together with restrictions on the size - and wage level - of the club's squad for next season's Champions League.
Arsenal boss Wenger believes the sanctions imposed on clubs used by Uefa must be more straightforward.
"From all of us on the outside, it looks a complicated punishment, which nobody really understands," Wenger added.
A late deal between City and Uefa remains a possibility but if no agreement is made before Friday's deadline then City's case will proceed to Uefa's independent adjudicatory panel, headed by two European Court justices.
That decision will be non-negotiable - bar a potential appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) - and could see the club hit with a far harsher penalty than the one currently on offer to them.
I subscribe to Wenger's Idea. Clubs should be regulated in that respect.
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