The Liverpool vice-captain, Jamie Carragher, has admitted his playing career could be over in one or two year's time.
The 33-year-old has made 676 appearances for the Reds and is highly regarded at Anfield following 14 years of loyal service.
However, Carragher could soon find himself no longer a first-team regular in defence and claims his future is in the hands of his manager.
He said: "Ask (Liverpool boss) Kenny (Dalglish). He picks the team. It will be up to the coaching staff I suppose.
"You want to try to get as much out of your career and play as long as possible.
"The time will come in the next 12, 18 months, maybe two years.
"That won't be down to myself. It will be down to the people around me, the staff, the manager. They will decide."
Carragher has been tipped by some as a future Liverpool manager and he is looking forward to making the transition into coaching.
"Do I want to go in to coaching or management? Yes, I think so," Carragher added.
"I've taken my first steps to coaching and the B license.
"We all love the game, you want to stay involved in the game."
Carragher thinks the presence of foreigners is impeding the development of young English players and hit out at the Premier League for not protecting home-grown youngsters
"Everyone wants to play in the Premier League now. Players at our academy don't get a chance," he said.
"Our academies are not just full of local players. They are full of foreign players too. That's a bit of a problem for me.
"I think no foreign players should leave their country until 18 or maybe 21 and I think I think the academies should be for local players."
Carragher also backed up the view put forward by Paul Scholes that past England squads have been divided.
He remarked: "I saw that. I don't think it was Man United and Liverpool. It was more Man United and the rest.
"They'd all grown up together those Man United players. They had been in youth teams together. They would always sit together at meal times. It was just like the five best mates together.
"They'd all come through together. It was a tight-knit thing. They were best mates. They had a great youth team. It was more of a case of that.
"There were that many of them. They had such a good team. They probably had seven or eight in the squad at the same time.
"It was probably difficult for anyone to break into that little group and get to know them."
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