Marseille have suspended manager Andre Villas-Boas after he offered his resignation because he disagreed with the club’s “sporting policy”.
In a statement, the French club said Villas-Boas’ news conference comments on Tuesday were “unacceptable”.
The former Chelsea and Tottenham boss took charge at Marseille in 2019.
Earlier on Tuesday, Villas-Boas had said: “I don’t want anything from Marseille.
“I’m waiting for an answer – it could be no and then we would continue. I don’t want any money, I just want to leave.”
On Ntcham, he said: “The transfer window finished with the arrival of a new player. A decision which wasn’t taken by me. I had nothing to do with this decision.
“In fact, I learned about it in the press this morning. It is precisely a player for whom I said no [to signing]. He was never a player on our list.”
Marseille said the decision to suspend the 43-year-old Portuguese was “inevitable” because of…