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The winner will be announced on Friday. This article is more than 8 years old. Poyet suspended three days after play-off defeat Claims of disagreement with club over retained list. Gus Poyet has been suspended by Brighton three days after their play-off defeat to Crystal Palace. Reuse this content. Following an unsuccessful appeal against his dismissal the former Chelsea and Tottenham midfielder is yet to find another managerial job but he will appear as a pundit on Match of the Day on BBC TV this season.

On Poyet's phone call to him, Bloom added: "He didn't want to discuss it at all. I didn't want anything to get in the way of that. Bloom says his target for the coming campaign is to mount another challenge for promotion. It's always a difficult one. 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. It was his desperation to use Vicente that soured their relationship. The Dale Stephens haters will be disappointed to hear Poyet give the midfielder a glowing review.