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They will have to overturn a five-point deficit if they are to win their fourth league title in a row. It is believed that Poyet left his role amicably after talks with the club. His departure from Brighton wasn't as amicable, though. Poyet joined Brighton in He guided them to the Championship in and was the manager as they got to the playoffs in But, just months after coming so close to promotion to the Premier League, he was sacked by the club.

He remembers it rather differently. And they agreed compensation. As manager of a club which is in the top six of the Championship with a month and a half to go, and your club agree compensation for you to go and talk to another club, how do you take that? It makes you think. So, I talk to Reading. They offer me a contract, bigger with a bigger budget. And I declined it. I said no. My power, how much I was in charge, how we did things.

It was changing. You show loyalty and it goes against you. Fast forward to that Palace playoff semi final. According to Poyet, the defeat gave those in the boardroom who wanted him out the perfect excuse to give him the sack.

Bottom line. No excuses. A great experience. And if I stayed, he would have needed to shut up. It was just a matter of time. Did I?

I went through June, July and August, September, October before I got a job and that was because Sunderland were bottom of the Premier League with one point from seven games. The relationship and the way we worked together, there was no better in the history of Brighton.

But for a manager to have a group of supporters making a song, singing from Peterborough on, what they were singing about your team, is something spectacular. So people have to believe something happened. Imagine two parents getting divorced and the kid living with one of those parents.

And the parent is talking bollocks. The rest of the interview is equally interesting. Gus Poyet constantly refers to his time at Brighton as his best in football.

The infamous story about Poyet and Mauricio Taricco flying out to Groningen to watch Virgil van Dijk is told, perhaps for the first time. I want us to get better, and as a manager I want to get better. I'm under contract, but we'll see. However, those remarks would not explain the suspensions of Taricco, a former teammate of Poyet's at Tottenham Hotspur, or Oatway, a long-time club servant and popular former player, who is in the middle of his testimonial year and plans to donate half of the proceeds to the club's community programme.

All three were informed of their suspensions by text early on Wednesday evening and have been told to stay away from the Amex Stadium and training ground and have no contact with the players. The club will now follow its internal procedures with regard to this matter and will make no further comment at this time.

Monday's post-match press conference was not the first occasion on which Poyet had gone public on the fact that Brighton's playing budget was in the bottom half of Championship payrolls. However, although the relative shortage of cash at Brighton was cited in reports of his interest in the Reading job following the dismissal of Brian McDermott in March, The Independent understands that Poyet has also been dissatisfied with other aspects of the belt-tightening at the club in preparation for Financial Fair Play rules that come into effect next season.

He is believed to have told the players at a meeting on Tuesday that he could give no guarantees about his future and would not be compiling the retained list, which was released today.