“I went round his house once and I walked in and he had about six or seven people sitting in the front room. I said to him, ‘Cris, who are all these people" Ferdinand recalled to William Hill via Manchester Evening News.
He said, ‘that’s my personal masseur, my nutritionist, my doctor, my physio, my chef'. He had all these people and back then no one was doing that in the game. So, he was a visionary in that sense. He knew what it was going to take.
"If people were laughing at him for doing those extras at one time, by the time he got to be World Player of the Year, they were saying I’m going to copy that - sometimes you’ve got to go against the grain and be a bit of a disruptor.
“He will have objects in the back of his room if we’re on Zoom and I say, ‘What’s that?’ He’ll go, ‘that’s the energy for the room.’ Mad stuff like that and I just think, ‘this guy is different.’ He’s just looking for every little detail that’s going to enable him to improve."
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