Ferdinand has been struggling with injuries during his career, but is prepared to battle through the pain in order to keep on playing.
“If I can play for another seven years until I’m 37 or something like that and I have got to have injections to play, it wouldn’t bother me that I might have a limp or something like that after I’ve finished playing football,” Ferdinand told The Times.
“I’m a little bit concerned it might become more of a problem as I get older, but I don’t really like to think about it like that.
“I’m quite good at blocking pain out, I’m not into moaning about it or anything like that.
“I’ve got a bad ankle that I’ve got over loads of times, but now I’m getting a little bit older you start to feel it a little bit more.
“But I’m nowhere near the point where I feel old. I still feel 23 or 24.”
