QPR boss Harry Redknapp has no problem with the media commitments of Rio Ferdinand.
Redknapp believes 35-year-old Ferdinand, who won six Barclays Premier League titles, is motivated by a desire to prove he can still perform at the top after losing his place at Manchester United.
"What we're paying him here isn't going to change his life," said the QPR boss. "He can walk away, do anything he wants. He's on the A-Team at the BBC, up there with Alan Hansen and Alan Shearer at the World Cup final, the day they had to go bosh and pick the top three pundits.
"He's got a great future if he wants in television. I wouldn't want to him on TV at 5.30 on a Saturday night, after coming off 10 minutes from the end.
"There was a player a few years ago who kept turning up on the radio on '606' and I thought: 'How on earth has he got there?'"
