{"id":193019,"date":"2025-10-11T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193019\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:04:11","slug":"henry-slade-breaks-silence-on-exeter-chiefs-future-amid-exit-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193019\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Slade breaks silence on Exeter Chiefs future amid exit rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Henry Slade has indicated that he is ready to sit down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/exeter-chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Exeter Chiefs<\/a> boss Rob Baxter and pledge the rest of his career to the Sandy Park outfit.<\/p>\n<p>Plymouth-born Slade, who will be 33 next March, is out of contract at the end of the season and is about to start talks on what is widely expected to be the last big contract of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The outside-centre who joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/chiefs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chiefs<\/a> from his hometown club, Plymouth Albion, in 2012, admits that he is settled in Devon\u2019s second city and is edging towards staying.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>Jamie Roberts &amp; KOKO show on Springboks\u2019 innovation | RPTV<\/p>\n<p>Kick offs and Kick Ons (KOKO) is now on RugbyPass TV and the guys were joined by Jamie Roberts to discuss the Springboks \u2018silly buggers\u2019 that went on! Watch the full show on RugbyPassTV now<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rugbypass.tv\/playlist\/31712\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"video-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/spacer-new.png\" alt=\"Video Spacer\" width=\"100%\"\/>Jamie Roberts &amp; KOKO show on Springboks\u2019 innovation | RPTV<\/p>\n<p>Kick offs and Kick Ons (KOKO) is now on RugbyPass TV and the guys were joined by Jamie Roberts to discuss the Springboks \u2018silly buggers\u2019 that went on! Watch the full show on RugbyPassTV now<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will have to have that conversation this year. Fairly soon, I guess. I love playing here. My family is from here. You can almost see my house from here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents get to come and watch me every week. I am raising my kids here. It\u2019s a great part of the world. You never say never with things when your contract has come up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou never know what Rob (Baxter) is going to offer me or what is elsewhere. But I am more than happy here,\u201d Slade tells RugbyPass.<\/p>\n<p>Slade, who holds one of the enhanced EPS contracts, has been a target for French clubs, especially two years ago when there was a huge exodus across the Channel and he was one of the names being touted for a move to R360.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t talk too much about that. No one really knows too much about it. There has been hearsay and things, but there has not been loads of factual information thrown about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it is an exciting prospect. Players\u2019 careers are short, and with the amount of money being thrown about, the lure of playing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rugbypass.com\/teams\/england\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> is a massive thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf things get put on the table, you never know, but playing for England is a huge lure, and that is going to keep me and probably a lot of players in the league to have the opportunity to play for your country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, when all the info is out there, we\u2019ll make a decision, but as players right now, we don\u2019t know too much. But nothing changes for England players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have never been able to play anywhere else other than England to play for England,\u201d added Slade, who has won 73 caps since breaking into the England set-up over a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Slade has indicated that he is ready to sit down with Exeter Chiefs boss Rob Baxter and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-193019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}