"I don't know what my future will be yet, but I don't want to end it on the treatment table. I would like to continue for another year," he told the official Inter website.

"Considering I owe six months of football to Inter, I hope to carry on here."

Figo also took time to deny a press story that he had accidentally run over a stray black cat that had been wandering around the Appiano Gentile training ground for some months.

"It is absolutely not true. I want an apology, otherwise I will be forced to take legal action."