Gustavo Poyet threatened to quit as Bordeaux coach on Thursday after claiming the club sold key striker Gaetan Laborde to French Ligue 1 rivals Montpellier without his permission.
The 50-year-old Uruguayan, a former Chelsea and Tottenham player and ex-coach at Brighton and Sunderland, demanded answers from the club as the row took the shine off Bordeaux’s Europa League qualifying win over Mariupol of Ukraine. “I’m not happy, it’s my worst day at this club,” said Poyet who joined Bordeaux in January after a stint with Shanghai Shenhua in China. Read more