Richard Masters breaks silence on PSR rules after Newcastle United fear of points deduction

Premier League chief Richard Masters insists he is keen to avoid another scenario which could result in white knuckle rides like June in which Newcastle United were essentially forced to sell two of their best young players.

It was back in June when United, faced with the impending PSR health check deadline, were pushed into making two sales that weren't on Eddie Howe's agenda. Howe had planned to use Yankuba Minteh in pre-season and was in dire need of a right winger but a £30m deal with Brighton & Hove Albion was struck.

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Just as controversially in the eyes of some fans, Academy product Elliot Anderson was also sold to Nottingham Forest for a club record sale £35m. The sales were pushed through in fear of points deductions after both Everton and Forest were punished by the Premier League last season for PSR breaches.

Masters, speaking at the Premier League's media open day for rights holders, said: "We want to move to a new system that people have confidence in and can comply with and move away perhaps from normalising asterisks against league tables or long-running regulatory cases.

"We have some issues we have to resolve and a number of cases that need to resolve themselves and I believe they're going to do so."

Meanwhile, Masters has also commented on the prospect of playing Premier League games abroad with the top-flight consistently linked with following in the footsteps of the NFL, NHL and NBA in playing competitive games on foreign soil.

With FIFA involved in a court case in the States, arguing the impact on the negatives of such a move, Masters said: "It's not really clear what's happening at Fifa. We know there's been a court case in the US but what that means in terms of regulatory change at Fifa happening, whether it's going to be permissible or not to play matches abroad, I don't know. What I do know is that there are no plans to play matches abroad."