Johnson":10b4y2gc said:
Andy Hessenthaler or Stan Ternant for me.
Stan Ternant? Having read Simon Jordan's book, I doubt Mr Brent would go there....
...So I decided to offer Ternant the job and phoned Finnegan (Ternant's agent) and said I was prepared to offer him the same salary as Trevor Francis, £320,000 a year, and once agreed I would approach Burnley. Barely an hour had passed and Finnigan phoned back saying "Stan says bo**ocks, It's not enough money"
Suddenly it was about money. I had offered him top dollar, but still he wanted more. So I pulled out and said to Finnigan, "If it's all about money let's just leave it."
I had barely had time to put the phone down when Ternant came on the line. "Chairman, you are making a big fooking mistake. I know more about football than you will ever know. This is a huge opportunity you are missing out on. You're going to regret this."
He sounded like he was half cut.
But it was to get worse. Whilst I was out at dinner, Ternant left a series of messages on my voicemail, each one worse than the last. Clearly he was drinking, the last message, left in a broad Lancashire accent, was "Chairman, I am fooking great and you are fooking sh*t. I have got a fooking Bentley and a fooking Mercedes. You have made a big mistake. You haven't got the bo**ocks to answer my calls so fudge your job."
I really can't see James Brent and Stan Ternant being bedfellows, can you?
