Burnley boss Brian Laws claims it would be "ridiculous" to allow relegation rivals Portsmouth to sell players outside the transfer window.

Cash-strapped Pompey have requested permission to be able to move on players in a desperate attempt to ease crippling debts.

The south coast club, seven points behind Burnley at the bottom of the Barclays Premier League, are facing a winding-up hearing at the High Court on March 1.

Laws can sympathise with the situation Portsmouth have found themselves in but is adamant that exceptions should not be made for one club.

Laws said: "We all work within rules and regulations.

Daily Echo: Click below to see a video of today's headlines in sixty seconds

"That is the way the Football League or Premier League has worked for hundreds of years.

"Why should we have to change that for one particular club who are finding it very difficult with their finances?

"Whilst we have every sympathy with a football club that has difficulties, the only ones they should be looking at are themselves.

"They should be looking in a mirror to find the answer. They got themselves into it, (they should) get themselves out of it.

"I would hate to think the Premier League would allow them such a ridiculous thing beyond the transfer window.

"I would think 100% of the Premier League would be saying the same, so I don't think they would get much support from the Premier League clubs."