When is anything football related every straight forward?
It would appear from what Gus said that his advisors had been meeting the club today (it's more than likely that the legal teams have been trying to thrash this out all weekend) and the decision to sack him came from those meetings...
Read what I wrote. If the club had told his lawyers earlier today how were they to know the message hadn't reached Poyet. The club may not have known he was due to be on TV tonight at first, so quickly released a statement so we knew what was going on fearing that Poyet was going to released the...
It's entirely possible that the club informed Poyet's legal team earlier today without realising he was going to be on TV tonight. Once they realised he was they thought they'd better get a statement out quickly before Poyet revealed his sacking on live TV to every Brighton fan that was...