PFA chairman Clarke Carlisle wants players and the union to work together more in order to deal with issues such as racism more effeciently in the future.

Carlisle has been at the forefront of the recent anti-racism debate in football and has been seen to be doing whatever he can to get players to speak to the PFA about their concerns.

And, following the PFA's announcement of a six point plan to tackle racism football yesterday, Carlisle now wants to have discussions with concerned players so that they know how they can improve as a union.

He told TalkSport shortly after the Ferdinand's statement was released last night: "We are upset in hearing that any one of our members are disappointed in our actions.

"The good thing about that statement is that both of them have said that they will be committed to entering into discussions and work with all the organisations involved about how to progress and move forward.

"So hopefully we'll be able to get these guys into the offices and have a chat with them about why they felt disappointed and what areas of support we could have done differently so that we can move forward in the way that we service our members."

Carlisle also stressed that every union or organisation suffers difficult times and that the PFA is no different.

"Every organisation goes through tough times and you can't forsee what's going to go on. Hindsight is a wonderful thing," he added.

"It would have been better if we had disclosed the minutes of all the meetings we have had over the past 10 months, but that's not the way that it works."