Eddie Howe blasts PSR rules that forced Newcastle United to lose £35m asset

Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe has panned the PSR rules that forced the Magpies to sell Elliot Anderson.

United must face up to the 22-year-old playmaker at the City Ground this afternoon with Whitley Bay lad Anderson shining so far as a Nottingham Forest star. However, Howe feels that the current rules that pushed cash-laded Newcastle to sell him don't make sense.

Speaking about the £35million sale Newcastle boss Howe said: "Like I’ve said before I don’t understand the rationale. I don’t understand why we’re in a position to incentivise selling academy products. I don’t necessarily think they started with that intention of forcing teams to make those decisions. So for us to put all the work into Elliot, the academy, the coaches, the time, to then see him leave and flourish for another Premier League club is something that we feel we should be in a position to do.

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"You should be able to sell players and have the same effect it did with Elliot. Of course, we got the full profit from the sale and that’s why we decided to sell him."

What makes it an even tougher pill to swallow for Howe is that Anderson is on the brink of an England call up. He reflected: "Without a shadow of a doubt, in my opinion. I remember having many conversations with Elliot about his international future, because that was slightly up in the air.

"For me, he should set his dreams and his aims very high, because it was obvious he had the ability to get to wherever he wanted to go. England is a big aim for him and I see that in his future, definitely."