If Poyet felt betrayed that the club has agreed to let Reading talk to Poyet, without speaking to him first?
But as others have said, it may well be that he has a clause in his contract that means the club must let him know if a prem club (of for that matter any club) requests to speak to him. If that is the case then the club would be obliged to notify of that interest. Notwithstanding that, surely there would have been talk between Reading and his agent to see if he might be interested as I can't imagine them approaching the Albion if they didn't think they would at least get to talk to him. Now before the gus bus brigade jump on my back, I admit I don't know that for certain but it is speculation based on my understanding on how a lot of deals in football, whether that be managers or players, are initiated.