Henry Slade: England centre aiming for place at 2027 World Cup

Slade’s comments come amid the attempt to establish the rebel league R360.

The global franchise league has approached some of the world’s top players to try to recruit them for an inaugural competition they hope will begin next October.

It has led to many of the world’s leading nations stating they will not pick players for international duty if they are playing in R360.

“No-one really knows much about it,” Slade said when asked if he has been approached to join the breakaway competition.

“There’s been hearsay and things, there’s not been loads of actual information being thrown about it.

“Obviously it’s quite an exciting prospect and players’ careers are short with the amounts of money being thrown around.

“The lure of playing for England is obviously a massive thing as well so if things get put on the table, you never know.

“But I love playing for England, that’s a huge, huge draw that’s going to keep me and probably a lot of players pretty much in the league.

“When all the info is out there, we’ll make the decision, but as players right now we don’t know too much.”