GILLINGHAM manager Stan Ternent could stay on next year in the Priestfield hotseat – if the club made him the right offer.

Ternent, who arrived at Gillingham in December, signed an initial six-month deal that runs out at the end of the current season.

But, despite recent newspaper reports linking him with jobs in the North West, where his family are based, Ternent says he wouldn’t rule out staying in the South East if the terms are right.

He said: "I keep seeing ‘Stan wants to go back North’. But Stan doesn’t want to go back North – Stan goes where he earns his living.

"I have got a grand-daugther and family up there and I’m a Northern lad but they seem to miss that I was at Chelsea and Crystal Palace in the South. I have been to various places but I go where the job is.

"No-one has spoken to me about staying yet. The agreement with the chairman was that I would come in until the last game of the season. Then the chairman could look at me and I could look at the club and then we could sit down and chat about it when the time is right.

"But I don’t have any pre-conceived ideas about anything. The fact of the matter is no-one has asked me to stay yet and I haven’t told anyone that I’m not staying. It is just pure speculation.

"If they want me to stay on and they make me an offer that I think is acceptable, then there is no reason I wouldn’t stay. If it wasn’t acceptable then I wouldn’t stay. But I wouldn’t want to put the chairman on the spot because he has been superb to Ronnie and I."